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Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Brent Jones <brent.jones@otago.ac.nz>
Subject: Re: top posting (off-topic)
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Bart Silverstrim writes:

>  You're right in that top posting is a savings in effort.

	I disagree.  It's not a savings, it's a transfer - moves the
work from the poster to the reader.  Make that "readers", because
/every single reader/ has been imposed on to expend the effort.
	Looked at that way, it could be seen as not just lazy and
stupid but outright hostile.


				Robert Huff