Top Posting

[Raeven Cogan]

On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Ric Moore <wayward4now at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 14:19 -0500, Raeven Cogan wrote:
> >  What is top posting and how can avoid doing it? I am sorry for asking
> > such a simple question but I have never been part of a mailing list
> > until now; thus, I have no idea what I am doing.
> >
>
> Just look at the other posters and follow the examples of replying. That
> is always a good thing to do when entering a email-list ...check out the
> lay of the land, so to speak. Top-posting is replying to the post with
> your reply on top. It doesn't read well at all. The effect is like this:
>
> Abby: "Smack it with a broom!"
> Dear Abby: "There is a spider in my bathtub!"
>
> The answer is before the question. Yet, a zillion Microsoft users do the
> same thing in email. I can only conclude that they don't read
> newspapers. For personal correspondence, it's supposed to be OK,
> although I don't do that either. But, when your question is put to the
> web for posterity, to be googled for and found, then that future user
> will get a gumbo of literary confusion reading replies on top of the
> original question. Ergo, I do not regard top-posting as evidence of
> intelligence by the poster.  For further info, google will supply you
> with many many page on the topic ...which is the second rule of the
> list ... search first, ask second. Welcome! Ric
>
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Excuse me, but is this bottom posting or am I still incorrect?
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