----- Original Message ----- From: "Fred Cisin" <ci...@xenosoft.com> To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <cctalk@classiccmp.org> Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 10:05 PM Subject: Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!
>> "Top posting implies that you are only interested in computers from the >> 1990s or newer." > > On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, drlegendre . wrote: >> In addition to being a sign of secretly harbored communist sympathies. > > I thought that it was the other way around You mean as in "there's only one way to do something (the Party Line/the way it's always been done), regardless of how most of the rest of the world does it, and anyone deviating from that will be publicly chastised/criticised (unless they seem to rate an exemption for some reason)?" Personally, I find bottom-posting a huge PITA, both sending and receiving, although trimming and inline posting certainly have their place. m