bottom-post

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)
bottom-post
 v.

   In a news or mail reply, to put the response to a news or email
   message after the quoted content from the parent message. This is
   correct form, and until around 2000 was so universal on the Internet
   that neither the term `bottom-post' nor its antonym {top-post}
   existed. Hackers consider that the best practice is actually to
   excerpt only the relevent portions of the parent message, then
   intersperse the poster's response in such a way that each section of
   response appears directly after the excerpt it applies to. This
   reduces message bulk, keeps thread content in a logical order, and
   facilitates reading.
    

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