[WikiEN-l] Footers (WAS: Re: Deleting the Lolicon picture)

[Daniel R. Tobias]

On 4 Apr 2006 at 11:01, David Alexander Russell <webmaster at davidarussell.co.uk> wrote:

> True - but could I add that if everyone put their message ABOVE the
> quoted text, rather than below, then this issue would be moot anyway
> (since we wouldn't need to go through the endless footers in order to
> get to the message)

Digest-mode readers (such as myself) still have to scroll through all 
of that excrement in order to get to the next message.

It can also be difficult to follow a list with lots of topics going 
on at once if there isn't any contextual quoting (carefully trimmed) 
above the response to remind you of what is being replied to.  
Reading the context *after* the reply is awkwardly backward.

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