top and bottom posting

Jay Daniels tux at myt60.net
Thu Sep 10 00:59:41 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 17:22 -0700, Pastor JW wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 4:55:20 pm Steve Reilly wrote:
> > Douglas Pollard wrote:
> >
> >
> > There is no end of
> >
> > > the hell I catch for bottom posting on some other lists.
> >
> > ok, ill bite. what lists?  ive never experienced a top posting mailing
> > list.
> 
> Oh, you'll recognize one, they're the ones with 27 quotes of previous messages 
> still there and the person who answers usually adds four or five words to it 
> and re-posts the entire 5 meg messsage again.  Of course since it irritates 
> everyone, they also are only small groups left who will put up with that 
> garbage.  20-25 noisy members.  Then they wonder why they can't ruin everyone 
> else's list like they did theirs and ask question like we just got.
> 
> 


Well that pretty much explain why bottom post.

thanks,


jay





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