Paul Rubin schreef: > No. Top posting has always been an aberrance. It first appeared in > Usenet when Usenet (a word whose etymology comes from "Unix" and > "network") started attracting Microsoft Windows users, who were in the > habit of using Windows products that top-posted. That happened fairly > far along in Usenet's evolution
Yep. The time when things started to go wrong is sometimes pinpointed as september 1993 and referred to as "Eternal September" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September). -- If I have been able to see further, it was only because I stood on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton Roel Schroeven -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list