Maybe someone should explain to me what's so bad about top posting.
Seems like a matter of preference to me.
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On 13/09/07 17:40 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:04:59AM -0400, Ben Gladwell wrote:
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On Friday, September 14 at 09:40 AM, quoth Ben Gladwell:
Maybe someone should explain to me what's so bad about top posting.
Seems like a matter of preference to me.
To quote the jargon file:
The problem with this practice is neatly summed up by the
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On Friday, September 14 at 09:03 AM, quoth Kyle Wheeler:
To quote the jargon file:
The quotation is from here:
http://catb.org/jargon/html/T/top-post.html
(note that there was no need to quote the entire email)
~Kyle
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On 14/09/07 09:03 -0500, Kyle Wheeler wrote:
On Friday, September 14 at 09:40 AM, quoth Ben Gladwell:
Maybe someone should explain to me what's so bad about top posting.
Seems like a matter of preference to me.
To quote the jargon file:
The problem with this practice is neatly summed up
Ok, I can see how its preferable to edit and reply at the bottom for
mailing lists. I'm going to keep that in mind from now on. :)
Jeopardy-style, answer-first is not always bad for other types of
correspondences.
This is fair. You said before that it seems like a matter of
preference.
On 2007-09-14, Ben Gladwell wrote
Maybe someone should explain to me what's so bad about top posting.
Seems like a matter of preference to me.
It *is* a matter of preference, as are good manners. Top posting puts
the burden of putting the poster's reply in context and logical order on
the
On 2007-09-14, I wrote
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My appologies to the list.
I didn't intend to include the disclaimer, but forgot to delete it. I
should stick to posting replies from home.
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David Ellement
* Rado S [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-02 16:31 +0200]:
Can some kind benificiary of Alain's tutorials recapture all the
good advice and convert it (last and older ones from archives) into
a nice document at http://WIKI.mutt.org/ - MuttGuide - Charsets?
Has somebody picked this one up yet? If
