A: Because it messes up 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?
On 23 February 2011 22:42, Bryan Crossland <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 1:21 PM, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: >> Por favor, pare top postagem > > "The traditional style was for a long time to post the answer below as much > of the quoted original as was necessary to understand the reply (bottom or > inline). Many years later, when email became widespread in business > communication, it however became a widespread policy to reply above the > entire original and leave it untouched (and without any prefixes at the > beginning of each line) below the reply." This list isn't a business communication - it's a reference resource, and that "policy" was imposed because one company's email software that just "did it that way" - irregardless of any user preference. >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style Read the whole of that article... especially the section on "Choosing the proper posting style". If after that you still insist on top-posting, so be it :-/ *shrug* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
