Top-posting has only ever made sense (and barely, at that) in a
two-person exchange of a short sequence; where all fits on one page, as:
I agree with that message, but I would like to summarize it in a
two-lines rule :
* When you do a short answer to a question, you have to top-post because
the reader is supposed to have already read first the question.
* When you make an answer to a structured message, and want to answer it
point by point, you have to put the answer to each point right *after* a
short citation of the point you are answering.
Examples :
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Select the text and click on the "B" button, or try ctrl-b
> How do I get bold ?
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but the following ask for a bottom-posting :
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I really like Word because it creates beautiful documents and it
is supported by a known software company, what gives me a guarantee
that I could still be able to read my documents in 10 years. Now, OpenOffice
is only a crappy software used by communists which is not even free
because it is
developed by Sun.
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Answer :
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>I really like Word because it creates beautiful documents
On that point, LaTeX is even better. (troll inside :d)
>and it is supported by a known software company,
>what gives me a guarantee
>that I could still be able to read my documents in 10 years.
In fact, this is the contrary. Microsoft is used to change their
"standard" in
order to make pay for new versions.
>Now, OpenOffice
>is only a crappy software used by communists
I'm not ;)
>which is not even free because it is developed by Sun.
As long as the source is available, this is free. *who* creates it is
not the point
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Laurent
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