A. Because it's annoying and makes no sense when reading normally.
Q. Why is top-posting bad?
On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 the voices made Vikram Vaswani write:
VV> >On Wed, 16 Apr 2003 the voices made Vikram Vaswani write:
VV> >
VV> >VV> Can anyone throw some light on this problem, or suggest a tool that
could
VV> >VV> perform the reassembly for me?
VV> >
VV> > showpartial
VV> >
VV> > Didn't take many seconds to find it using Google...
VV> Not sure how showpartial would work, it seems to be intended to display
VV> partial messages. How would I use it for reassembly?
VV>
VV> Sorry if this is a stupid question!
Not a stupid question, but one easily answered using Google...
Showpartial will hand the message to metamail to be "displayed", but if you'd
read a lil bit about metamail you'd seen that it doesn't have to display the
message, but can save it to a file.
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