[arch-general] top posting

Scott scottro at nyc.rr.com
Thu May 15 17:20:57 EDT 2008


A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. 
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? 
A: Top-posting. 
Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?


:)

(I bet a bunch of other people wanted to do that.)




On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 02:29:16PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On Thu, May 15, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Xavier <shiningxc at gmail.com> wrote:
> > http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
> 
> I'm not sure
> 
> >
> > What about using a consistent style, at least for one given ML?
> > arch-general is really painful to read sometimes.
> 
> what you're talking about.
> 
> >
> > Thanks!
> 
> You must be crazy
> 

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