[sclug] TopPosting Was: Helping others into FOSS/Linux

[John Stumbles]

Alan Pope wrote:
> On 03/05/05, Hamlesh Motah <admin at hamlesh.com> wrote:
> 
>>Both Neil's and your views expressed how I felt when I was asked not to
>>top post (once I read what it was).  I must not be understanding, if its
>>such a bad practise why hasn't it formed a greater more weightier part
>>of the business community email etiquette, whom to be fair are starting
>>to use email more than the average geeks.
> 
> One simple reason. Microsoft. Your average desktop user has one email
> client and thats Microsoft Outhouse. Either that or Lotus Notes. The
> default in both of those apps is to top post.
...

Seen elsewhere:

"Posting at the top of an article because that
is where your cursor happened to be is like
crapping in your pants because that is where
your arse happened to be."


:-)


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