[Wolves] Top Posting

Jono Bacon jonobacon at yahoo.com
Mon Mar 8 17:10:12 GMT 2004


Hi,

Naa. :)

  Jono

--- sparkes <sparkes at phreaker.net> wrote:
> <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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