On Wednesday 24 August 2005 09:14 pm, Anthony E. Caudel wrote:
> Jonathan Nichols wrote:
> > Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> >> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga
> >>
> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> | You know bud, read some rules, be polite.
> >>
> >> There are many who consider top posting to be just about the rudest
> >> thing you could possibly do on a mailing list. HTML email is worse, but
> >> not by much.
> >
> > It's too bad that even *gmail*, the paragon of geek email, encourages
> > top posting. :(
> >
> > And it's also the default setting in Thunderbird. I wish they'd change
> > that.
>
> As a matter of curiosity, why is top posting considered bad form. I'm
> using Thunderbird and when it views the mail, by default it is at the
> top. With bottom posting, I have to scroll down to view the post.
>
I with you, brother...
For me, top posting keeps me from having to wade through the entire message to
get to the "new response" of the OP.
I think most "linux nerds" (me included) distain top posting because it's the
default setting of some email app that runs on the windows OS....
Jerry
--
******************************************************************************
Registered Linux User Number 185956
FSF Associate Member number 2340 since 05/20/2004
Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net
Buy an Xbox for $149.00, run linux on it and Microsoft loses $150.00!
5:46pm up 37 days, 17:45, 2 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
--
gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
