[Wolves] Top Posting

sparkes sparkes at phreaker.net
Mon Mar 8 16:55:49 GMT 2004


<h1>I AGREE WITH HIM!</h1>
is it starting to hurt yet?

On Mon, 2004-03-08 at 16:45, Re-LoaD's LUG Mail wrote:
> <top>
> <pre>
> I Don't have any opinion
> 
> Re-LoaD
> </pre>
> </top>
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Peter Oliver" <p.d.oliver at mavit.freeserve.co.uk>
> To: "Wolverhampton Linux User Group" <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Sent: Sunday, March 07, 2004 5:15 PM
> Subject: Re: [Wolves] Top Posting
> 
> 
> On Sun, 7 Mar 2004, Jono Bacon wrote:
> 
> > > Hence top posting is wrong and should be discouraged.
> > 
> > Although I can see that you have to scroll down to see
> > the previous post, in a mailing list context it is
> > likely that you remember the previous discussion
> > anyway. In any case, is it *that* much trouble to
> > scroll down?
> 
> Maybe it's not that big a deal in the first instance, but two or three 
> messages down the line it makes a big difference;  each message tends to 
> actually contain multiple threads, and doing it this way allows you to 
> spilt them up and reply to each in turn.





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