22 Jan
2003
22 Jan
'03
12:53 p.m.
On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Zane H. Healy wrote:
I've never quite understood the top posting furor.
Whenever a top posting uproar appears on usenet, it just seems to be a way
for the anal elitists in places like the perl newsgroups to get in enough
complaints about the poster to justify posting a response to a question.
(They won't post a reponse without first some minor quibble about your
posting technique or eye color)
I find top posted messages go quicker reading my mail on my (on topic)
Wyse terminal.
--
Oh, and why
did you include the entire message you're comemnting on here,
rather than the one or 2 lines that were relevant? And why do you top-post?
-tony
I've come to the realization that top-posting is yet another sin that
Microsoft needs to answer for! In MS LookOut, it expects you to top-post to
replies (I suspect this is yet another MS ploy to waste disk space[1] as I've
also observed that people using MS LookOut tend to not know how to trim
messages[2]).