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

[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
>>> 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.

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?