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Harold Fuchs wrote:
> E-mail was designed for conversations. In a conversation it is not
> customary to repeat everything that's already been said before saying
> something new.
Reported conversations, however, are always documented in the order that
they occur (view any novel co
Tanstaafl skrev:
On 2010-05-10 3:06 PM, Erling Larsen wrote:
Don't litter ours inboxes with yet another mega-thread about top/bottom
posting. You will never come to an agreement..
Sorry, I thought this was the discuss list (again), where this kind of
thing is allowed...
I actually kin
On 2010-05-10 3:06 PM, Erling Larsen wrote:
> Don't litter ours inboxes with yet another mega-thread about top/bottom
> posting. You will never come to an agreement..
Sorry, I thought this was the discuss list (again), where this kind of
thing is allowed...
I actually kind of enjoy debating this
On 2010-05-10 1:44 PM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> On 10 May 2010 15:03, John Kaufmann wrote:
>> "Content of a follow-up post should exceed quoted content." Then Microsoft
>> introduced Outlook, with default behavior of posting above a fully-quoted
>> message, and top-posting soon became "normal"; a
On 2010-05-10 2:53 PM, John Kaufmann wrote:
> In a message dated 2010.05.10 13:44 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote:
>> I was using e-mail before screens and before the local devices had
>> any storage. Messages had to be printed as they came down the wire.
>> If you top posted it meant the reader could hi
Harold Fuchs skrev:
On 10 May 2010 15:03, John Kaufmann wrote:
Hi Harold,
In a message dated 2010.05.10 03:49 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote:
"Bottom posting" is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to
which you are replying. "Top posting" is placing your text above (on
In a message dated 2010.05.10 13:44 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote:
I was using e-mail before screens and before the local devices had any
storage. Messages had to be printed as they came down the wire. If you top
posted it meant the reader could hit the Break/Interrupt key after reading
your stuff a
On 10 May 2010 15:03, John Kaufmann wrote:
> Hi Harold,
>
>
> In a message dated 2010.05.10 03:49 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote:
>
> "Bottom posting" is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to
>> which you are replying. "Top posting" is placing your text above (on top
>> of)
>> the te
Hi Harold,
In a message dated 2010.05.10 03:49 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote:
"Bottom posting" is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to
which you are replying. "Top posting" is placing your text above (on top of)
the text to which you are replying. There is a religious war about th
On 2010-05-10 3:49 AM, Harold Fuchs wrote:
> "Bottom posting" is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to
> which you are replying. "Top posting" is placing your text above (on top of)
> the text to which you are replying. There is a religious war about the
> sanctity of the one and t
On 10-May-10 02:49, Harold Fuchs wrote:
On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote:
I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting'& 'top posting' mean. If
this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to type a
reply at the end of all this script. I will try that now. Pl
On May 10, 2010, at 09:49 , Harold Fuchs wrote:
> On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote:
>
>> I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting' & 'top posting' mean. If
>> this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to type a
>> reply at the end of all this script. I will
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From: "Harold Fuchs"
Sent: Monday, May 10, 2010 8:49 AM
To:
Subject: [users] OT: What is Bottom Posting? (was Re: [users]
incomprehensible error message)
On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote:
I apologise. I don't kn
On 10 May 2010 07:23, Thomas Steel wrote:
> I apologise. I don't know what 'bottom posting' & 'top posting' mean. If
> this is a 'top post', perhaps for a 'bottom post' it is possible to type a
> reply at the end of all this script. I will try that now. Please let me know
> if that doesn't work.
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