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Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2002 20:56:37 +0000 (GMT)
From: Peter Ulrich Kruppa <root@pukruppa.de>
To: Sean O'Neill <sean@seanoneill.info>
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Subject: Re: Stupid but I don't know what this is - top-posting ???
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Hi Sean,

I always thought "topposting" meant to post on top of someone's
message - the way I do now. But perhaps I am wrong. I am not a
native speaker of the english language.

Regards,

Uli.

On Wed, 27 Mar 2002, Sean O'Neill wrote:

> I recently responded to a reply to one of my questions accidentally to just
> the replier.  He ask me not to "top-post".  I saw another email just now
> with that same request of someone.
>
> Please excuse my ignorance but what is top-posting ?  I've read what I
> think is a currently guidelines for posting questions to freebsd-questions
> at http://www.lemis.com/questions.html but it doesn't explicitly say what
> top-posting is.
>
> I assume it has something to do with only replying to a specific individual
> and not including the freebsd-questions group ?
>
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