Top posting

[Myles Braithwaite]

Personally I don't like bottom posting I find it harder to read.
Especially now that people seem to be sending HTML emails which are
screwing up the <blockquote> tag.

On Mon, May 27, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Digimer <lists-5ZoueyuiTZiw5LPnMra/2Q at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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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