Top-posting, HTML-formatted mail, flaming, shouting and so on, was Re: KUBUNTU

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Sun May 13 23:45:37 UTC 2007


Clay Weber wrote:

> Is where/how you post really all that important? Is it really that hard to
> figure out in many cases?

Heavens no.  But if you top-post, most of us will just ignore you.

> If I were to bottom post in many mailing lists where "average joes" post,
> my comments would never be seen.

Just because top-posting isn't the answer, doesn't mean that bottom posting
is.  I've managed to quote the salient points here, not top-post, and still
get it all in in a dozen lines.
-- 
derek





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