Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:21:05 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: Lucas Holt <luke@foolishgames.com> Cc: Al Johnson <aj305523@tampabay.rr.com> Subject: Re: Top posting Message-ID: <20040322005105.GA52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <20040322004607.GZ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040322004514.GY52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040322004337.GX52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <DD43180C-7B98-11D8-BD54-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> <20040322004514.GY52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20040319172130.GB2044@cs025_2k> <20040319174618.GH64130@keyslapper.org> <20040319223506.GA63254@bhunter.net> <20040320195318.GA923@alex.lan> <20040321014349.GJ52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> <DD43180C-7B98-11D8-BD54-000A95EFF4CA@foolishgames.com> <20040322004337.GX52612@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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--7fVM7fn5T1d7Fqim Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:13:37 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 19:35:48 -0500, Lucas Holt wrote: >> Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster. I don't like >> when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post.. > > "Bottom posting", where you leave the entire previous message, is only > marginally better than top posting. On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:15:14 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to > show why top-posting is bad. See the previous message (Message ID > 20040322004337.GX52612@wantadilla.lemis.com) for a version that I > consider understandable. On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:16:07 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote: > The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to > show why bottom-posting (where a reply is completely separate from the > original message) is bad. See the first message (Message ID > 20040322004337.GX52612@wantadilla.lemis.com) for a version that I > consider understandable. You might also like to count the length of the three messages. The one with the interleaved answers is the shortest. This is because I trimmed unnecessary text. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --7fVM7fn5T1d7Fqim Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXjh5IubykFB6QiMRAoOhAKCznoZ+qRgY664sIDTRYtJzKnjmLACfX1Q7 o7w1b2EaGsxpHtFyYipuZiU= =1jh9 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --7fVM7fn5T1d7Fqim--
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