Harold Fuchs skrev:
On 10 May 2010 15:03, John Kaufmann <[email protected]> wrote:
Hi Harold,
In a message dated 2010.05.10 03:49 -0500, Harold Fuchs wrote:
"Bottom posting" is placing your text below (at the bottom of) the text to
which you are replying. "Top posting" is placing your text above (on top
of)
the text to which you are replying. There is a religious war about the
sanctity of the one and the total ungodliness of the other. Please don't
ask
why. The "third way" is to intersperse your comments within the text, with
each comment immediately below the text to which it relates.
FWIW: In the 1980s, when it was DARPAnet, it seems like I only ever saw
your "third way" - but then it was an almost entirely technical community,
and people were both comfortable with editing and task-oriented enough to
appreciate the efficiency of responding directly on point. When it became
the Internet, the user demographic changed, and with it some of the
fastidiousness about communication etiquette, prompting explicit
recommendations like those of RFC 1855 to "quote only relevant parts";
"Content of a follow-up post should exceed quoted content." Then Microsoft
introduced Outlook, with default behavior of posting above a fully-quoted
message, and top-posting soon became "normal"; as many users know, MS
invented the Internet.
John
I was using e-mail before screens and before the local devices had any
storage. Messages had to be printed as they came down the wire. If you top
posted it meant the reader could hit the Break/Interrupt key after reading
your stuff and avoid having to re-print stuff s/he already knew. It was
possible but hard to bottom post. It was possible but much harder to "middle
post".
E-mail was designed for conversations. In a conversation it is not customary
to repeat everything that's already been said before saying something new.
Please guys
Don't litter ours inboxes with yet another mega-thread about top/bottom
posting
You will newer come to an agreement..
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Jeg har intet at gøre med FARC, al-Jihad, al-Qaida, Hamas, Hizb al-Mujahidin
eller ETA.
Jeg har aldrig gjort Zakat, går ikke ind for Istishad, har ikke lavet en
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betyder.
Men tak for den udviste interesse.
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