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

[Chanchao]

Dotan Cohen wrote:

>> 1. I use Gmail via Web, which defaults to top-posting.
> 
> So do I. So when I reply I hit Page Down once or twice to get to the
> bottom. It's no more difficult than lifting the toilet seat before
> peeing. 

Great.. and I assume you also snip away any quotes that aren't relevant 
for your comment(s) right....?  Because the ONE thing I dislike more 
than top-posting is bottom posting where you have to reach for the 
scroll bar or page-down key and do some serious downward navigation 
before you get to some new comments..  More often than not I just don't 
bother and delete such a post. (Unless the topic is enormously 
interesting or entertaining)

I would never quote more than a couple of lines before adding some new 
lines of my own unless there really was no other way.

> If you like the commercial way of doing things then why are you on the
> mailing list for a non-commercial OS? For that matter, does the
> commercial OS even _have_ a mailing list? 

Yes they do.  (Or forums/newsgroups, anyway)

> What is meant be "the commercial way of doing it", anyway? 

He means business correspondence.  So business e-mails, regardless of 
what OS/email client they're written on.

Cheers,
Chanchao