TopPosting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Paul]

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Brian Beattie <beattie at beattie-home.net>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 09:21 -0400, John DeCarlo wrote:
>
> >
> > Ideally, with proper threading, you would not need to quote the
> > previous message at all, making this a moot point.
>
> That is just flat wrong.  If the post you are reading, is a response to
> a message that you have deleted and expunged 15 minutes ago, you have no
> context.  Or is proper threading keeping all messages until a thread is
> exhausted.
>
> --
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting a bad thing?


Well, if this thread served any purpose it was to arrange all the top
posting idiots into one easy place so that they can be troll filtered
quickly.
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