It sounds like you may be confusing top-posting with trimming. Everybody
should trim the quoted text to only the relevant sections (regardless of
top- or bottom-posting) and they should post their response below the
relevant sections (bottom-posting).

It's the Way of USENET...


Just like tailwheel training - I'm learning something new every day!
Thanks for the explanation... I think I follow now - post below the
relevant sections (bottom posting) and *definitely* please please trim
those loooong posts... I probably miss about 15% of the posts because
groups.google.com trims them at 35 lines (all of which are the
previous post).

Hmmm - USENET - there's something about it - that promotes
misunderstanding