[time-nuts] OT: Top and bottom

Raj vu2zap at gmail.com
Mon May 23 15:33:38 UTC 2011


With my old Eudora, I can see top postings and not bottom ones. Unless I hit the details button and then I have to mine through the headers. Unless the poster deletes the unwanted posts text below.

At 23-05-2011, you wrote:
>I couldn't resist commenting about how top posting annoys you.
>Interestingly, I have always top posted ever since my first email way, way
>back. Everyone else I dealt with in business did it that way. It wasn't
>until I got involved with groups like this, that it apparently became a
>problem. 
>
>It always seemed logical to me to have the answers to a question at the top
>i.e. the most recent comment in the chain.
>
>No doubt I'll get a lot of replies both top and bottom about this...
>:-)
>RK
>

..Snip..

>--
>A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>A: Top-posting.
>Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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Raj, VU2ZAP
Bangalore, India. 




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