On Thu, Apr 25, 2013 at 09:28:31AM -0600, Marcus G. Daniels wrote: > On 4/25/13 8:05 AM, glen ropella wrote: > >"Nothing on the internet is more irrational than the bias against > >top-posting." > On 4/25/13 8:59 AM, Robert Holmes wrote: > > Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Top-posting encourages those that don't dissect one proposition at a > time but just want to give their Facebook Analysis. (Thumbs up, > thumbs down without defending the details of their position.) > > Marcus
There's plenty of other things way more annoying than top-posting. Not removing irrelevant parts of the cited text is one. Going off on a wild tangent unrelated to the original conversation another. But hardly worth a ban - people can filter and ignore stuff that is poorly presented. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
