[Long lines hand-wrapped; Google will probably mess them up]

Jose wrote:

I'd rather see the one-liner at the top, and then I know \
to skip the rest, than to claw my way down to the bottom \
to do so.

I have no problem with an appropriate mix of top, bottom, \
and interleaved postings. Each have their merits.

IMNSHO, *appropriate* top-posting is a *very* specialised field.

Please instruct your Netscape to use shorter lines: Usenet convention is
to keep original text within 72 columns, which allows modestly nested
quoting before anything falls off the right hand side of an 80-column
device.

The relevant option in my Netscrape is:

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Preferences
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Wrap long lines at [72] characters

YNMV