[Cryptography] ADMIN: A reminder about top posting

[Tom Mitchell]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 5:01 PM, Perry E. Metzger <perry at piermont.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 11 Jun 2014 00:55:54 +0100 xor <crypto at idlecore.com> wrote:
> > When there is a relatively big post,
>
.....

>
> I tend to prefer the former style, where comments are interspersed
> with (maximally trimmed) quoted material for context.
>

When I do not get caught by Gmail's limited interface I think about email
replies as a context diff.    I use a threaded mail reader and like it when
I
remember to include enough context to remind myself what
I am replying to and enough so someone can follow me. Knowing that some
can reread a previous thought without my hacked edits and [...]

>From the diff man page:
......snip....
-C lines
       --context[=lines]
     Use  the context output format, showing lines (an integer) lines
     of context, or three if lines is not given.  For proper opera-
     tion, patch typically needs at least two lines of context.

....snip....

Modern long lines that wrap themselves make this harder than it should be.

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