On Tuesday 28 Mar 2017 09:05:04 Dale wrote: > Danny YUE wrote: > > Just curious: why is top-posting forbidden here? > > I have never found any reference for that. > > > > I would appreciate it if you could tell me something about that. > > > > Danny > > Here is one but there are tons of others. > > https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html#idp5 > 5147880 > > > Also, on this list, html is frowned upon as well. Plain text is > requested, although some devices may not have the option. > > Dale > > :-) :-)
I thought the original joke went like this: A. Top posters Q. What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? A: Because it upsets the logical flow of the thread. Q: Why is top posting a bad idea? Anyway, Gentoo users often ask multifaceted questions which require more than a single answer. With top posting we would need to send many response emails to respond with clarity to all points the OP may have raised. With inline responses we can interlace the answers in the OP's message and the logical flow of the conversation is retained within a single response email. -- Regards, Mick
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