Top-Posting
Emil Oppeln-Bronikowski
opi at cyb3r.org
Fri May 6 08:00:49 UTC 2005
Matthew S-H wrote:
> great for conversations between two people and that that might be part
> of the reason mail clients put their cursors at the top.
Mines on the bottom. That makes sense. Bad quoting is rude, because you
ask somone to do a hard work of reading stuff from backward, also if you
don't snip text, you will end up in 40Kb e-mail with ,,Me too'' on the top.
First, doing that, you're messing with my mailbox. Second, your adding
load for lists.ubuntu.com servers. Thrid, if someone asks for help in a
form I dislike, I will not force myself to read his annoying
top-posting. I think there's lots of people who skip such mails without
even reading it.
You're reading books and newspapers from top to bottom. So you're
getting introduction to the story and the conclusion. Not the ,,And they
got married!'' in the title, and ,,Long time ago, there..'' in the last
paragraph.
Using e-mail has some rules. Driving a car has rules, too. Sure, you
don't get e-mail driving licence, but you're asking us to get better
bumpers, because you like to drive from left to right and from time to
time crash in our cars.
Sorry for the rant.
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