Top-posting shenanigans (was: Re: ASR33 $1000+ And Counting...)

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Thu Feb 24 14:09:32 2005

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Jules Richardson wrote:

> On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 12:49 -0600, David H. Barr wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:36:38 -0500, dvcorbin_at_optonline.net
>
> > The REAL One and Only Way is, of course, interleaved posting. I mean
> > you paste in the original statement or question, respond to that, then
> > paste in the next bit. Of course that takes TIME....
>
> That's just a specialised form of bottom-posting though :-)
>
> IME *typically* the people who top-post come from an environment where
> they've only ever used Outlook as their email client. I'm not sure why
> that link exists, but it's been my observation.

This is *exactly* where most top-posting comes from.

Another thing bad about top-posting is that it encourages lazy behaviour
(i.e. not trimming replies).

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