On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Mike Stein wrote:
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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.
Top-posting is like taking a crap in your pants because that's where your
arse was when you needed to go.
--
David Griffith
d...@661.org
A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
