[Wylug-discuss] List Etiquette: Top Posting vs. Bottom Posting

[Nigel Metheringham]

On 28 Oct 2007, at 18:03, John Leach wrote:

> In fact, the POP3 protocol has the command TOP which is used to  
> retrieve
> the first n lines of the message body.  I guess we can safely assume  
> the
> POP3 protocol designers were all a bunch of top posters.

Its actually the standard way to grab the headers if you aren't ready  
to download the message itself (ie for threading).

	Nigel.


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