On 12/4/2010 10:43 PM, Joe Zeff wrote: > > On 12/04/2010 02:21 PM, ehud.kaplan at gmail.com wrote: >> What does top post mean? I use Thunderbird as a front end for gmail and >> clicked on Reply-list. >> EK >> >> On 12/4/2010 3:53 PM, Peter Linnell wrote: >>> Hi, > > Top posting is when you put your reply above the original text, as you > did above. It's considered bad manners by most people because it means > that you read everything in reverse chronological order. I'm guessing > that Outlook and other Winderz email programs work that way because > dead-tree files are always done that way and office workers are used to > reading things backwards.
Perhaps it's best summed up by saying that a thread's a story. Stories don't go: And they all lived happily ever after. They had a family. They got married. There lived a man and a woman. Once upon a time. Jim
