[LINK] Top posting is evil

[Karl Auer]

On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 08:30 +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
> it NEVER makes sense on a mailing list.

Never say never :-)

I for one will top-post whenever it seems the right way to do it. You
can live with it, ignore it, or fume over it - not my problem.

It's quite appropriate to tell a newbie that top-posting is evil and
that bottom-posting is the right way to go, and I quite agree that
top-posting is generally a bad way to go (particularly when many replies
are interleaved, or when your email is part of a discussion that is
likely to continue). Bottom-posting should definitely be the default.

But I'm a big boy and quite able to decide for myself when it is
appropriate and when not. Sometimes it is, Craig - for me, and
apparently also for others; that doesn't mean you have to agree, and
certainly doesn't mean YOU have to use top-posting, not if YOU don't
want to.

Regards, K.

PS: Do "top-posting" and "bottom-posting" sound like some sort of
strange sexual practices to anyone else, or is it just me? Oh; it's just
me. OK...


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