TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal of a lifetime!!!

[Mike Stein]

----- 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
>> 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

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.

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