[Wolves] Top Posting

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Mon Mar 8 16:45:20 GMT 2004


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I Don't have any opinion

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----- 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.

-- 
Peter Oliver

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