The evils of top-posting [was Re: [Sderby] Fwd: [lugmaster] Infopoints still available]

[Richard Smedley]

Ian Spratt wrote:

>whats so wrong with top posting??
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A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?

>/me starts to build a very large flame resistant fortress.
>even that probably wont be enough
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Save the flame wars for vi and Emacs ;-)
Just take a look at:

http://www.blakjak.demon.co.uk/gey_stv0.htm
http://www.allmyfaqs.com/faq.pl?Top-posting_or_bottom-posting
http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html

Lastly, think of those who receive the list in digest form - of
all the lists I subscribe to, I get some 2 dozen in digest form
(though not this one), and it is an unmitigated pain to scroll
past the un-snipped comments of top -posters, and to keep
scrolling up and down when one must try and find out what
they are talking about, Usually I just don't bother reading
their messages :-/

 - Richard

/next week - the evils of not changing the subject line =^/