Top-posting [Was: Installing with apt-get]

Christofer C. Bell christofer.c.bell at gmail.com
Thu Jun 22 18:11:30 UTC 2006


On 6/22/06, Steve Tripp <progressivepenguin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Bottom posting is by far the most inefficient way to read lists like this
> that are active and have many additions.  Bottom posters also seem to be the
> loudest when it comes to complaining, and they also seem to overlook the
> fact that their complaints dilute the technical issues actually being
> discussed.

You are absolutely correct when using a robustly threaded mail reader
like Gmail.  I'd prefer if everyone top posted when using Gmail.

-- 
Chris

"I trust the Democrats to take away my money, which I can afford.  I
trust the Republicans to take away my freedom, which I cannot."




More information about the ubuntu-users mailing list