[LINK] Top posting is evil

[Kim Holburn]

> Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>> Another posting etiquette question.
>> When I post a news item I sometimes add a comment of my own. I put  
>> this at the top and surround with <brd></brd>
>> Am I being evil?
>> BTW, I have a problem with absolute statements like "top posting  
>> is evil". I believe that a more appropriate statement is "I do not  
>> like top posting [because...]" or "I think that top posting is a  
>> bad thing [because....]"

You might be infringing copyright law if you quote the whole  
article!!!!  The point here is to communicate and to cut down the  
signal to noise ratio.  Whatever works with that is OK.

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