From: John Niven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Broken LC
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:57:14 -0700
But Apples very own "Mail" program does put it on the top.
Anyway only "Flat earth" and "Intelligent Design" believers have to
troll through all the previous posts again to follow the thread.
Snigger ;-}
Only Flat Earth and Intelligent Design believers top post and fail to
snip all the extraneous trailing text such as the list footers, John.
Bottom posting was the custom on UseNet and BBS fora for years
(decades?) before some idiot at MS wrote a mail client that defaulted
to top posting. The default of the software does not define the
human custom.
Unfortunately, there are so many new users overwhelming the old and
who have no guidance except their client defaults, that top posting
is now all too common.
But as the FAQ says, most top posters fail to clip extraneous text,
which is rude and inconsiderate. Geeze. If you're going to top
post, at least edit your quoted text. The lists are getting
unreadable for all the messages that include all the text from the
previous three messages plus six copies of the list footer quoted and
requoted, just so they can add their thirty words of non-wisdom at
the top.
Jeff Walther
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