Top posting

Digimer lists-5ZoueyuiTZiw5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org
Mon May 27 20:01:01 UTC 2013


On 05/27/2013 03:58 PM, Marcelo Cavalcante wrote:
>
> 2013/5/27 Giles Orr <gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org <mailto:gilesorr-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org>>
>
>     Found this sig while doing an unrelated web search today.  I include
>     the author's info as attribution.  Maybe GTALUG's footer should
>     include this ...
>
>
> Kind of funny because I can remember seeing this discussion on many many
> lists/groups (including tlug, I guess) and it will always have people
> defending top posts... and people defending the opposite.
>
> Avoid top posting is a good idea, imoo, but after all, I'm not sure we
> can "win this war".

I always try to bottom post. That said, in my business dealings outside 
of the technical industry, I get flack for top-posting. "I don't see 
your reply" is the common complaint. So now I don't care. I'll try to 
follow running threads, but I stopped getting worked up over it.

Did the idea/message get through? Then good, job done.

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