10 Dec
2015
10 Dec
'15
5:36 a.m.
weren't all talking about C64s??? ":)
2015-12-10 3:23 GMT-02:00 <dave at 661.org>:
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, Mike Stein wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Fred Cisin" <cisin at
xenosoft.com>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts" <
cctalk at classiccmp.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 2015 10:05 PM
Subject: Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!!
Deal of a lifetime!!!
"Top posting implies that you are only interested in computers from the
You mean as in "there's only one way to do something (the Party Line/the
way it's always been done), regardless of how most of the rest of the world
does it, and anyone deviating from that will be publicly
chastised/criticised (unless they seem to rate an exemption for some
reason)?"
Personally, I find bottom-posting a huge PITA, both sending and
receiving, although trimming and inline posting certainly have their place.
Top-posting is like taking a crap in your pants because that's where your
arse was when you needed to go.
--
David Griffith
dave at 661.org
A: Because it fouls 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?
1990s or
newer."
On Wed, 9 Dec 2015, drlegendre . wrote:
In addition to being a sign of secretly harbored
communist sympathies.
I thought that it was the other way around