Editing Posting style (section)

===Bottom-posting===
In the "bottom-posting" style, the reply is appended to a full or partial copy of the original message. The name bottom-posting is sometimes used for inline-style replies, and indeed the two formats are the same when only one point is being replied to.

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 At 10.01am Wednesday, Danny wrote:<span style="color:red">
 > At 9.40am Wednesday, Jim wrote:</span><span style="color:blue">
 >> I'm going to suspend the mail service for approx. thirty
 >> minutes tonight, starting at 5pm, to install some updates
 >> and important fixes.</span><span style="color:red">
 <br>
 > Whoa!  Hold on.  I have a job scheduled at 5:30 which mails out
 > a report to key tech staff.  Could you push it back an hour?
 >
 > By the way, which systems will be updated? I had some network
 > problems after last week's update.  Will I have to reboot?
 </span>
 No problems. 6pm it is then.
 <br>
 Basically, I will update our WWW server and firewall.
 No, you won't have to reboot.

Bottom-posting, like inline replies, encourages posters to trim the original message as much as possible, so that readers are not forced to scroll past irrelevant text, or text that they have already seen in the original message:

 At 10.01am Wednesday, Danny wrote:<span style="color:red">
 > Could you push it back an hour?
 > [...] which systems will be updated?
 > [...] Will I have to reboot?
 </span>
 No problems. 6pm it is then.
 Basically, I will update our WWW server and firewall.
 No, you won't have to reboot.