On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 10:41AM -0500, Joe Hartley spake thus:
> On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:55:11 +0100
> james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net wrote:
> > A. Because it breaks the logical order of conversation.
> > Q. Why is top posting bad?
>
> Q: What's worse than top posting?
> A: Lazy twits(*) who can't be bothered to actually edit the message they're
> replying to. This is especially bad when a member of a digest version
> of a list replies.
>
> FWIW, I blame the purveyors of mail programs that don't include the
> message being replied to as editable text in the message. I also blame
> them for ruining email with HTML, but that's another rant.
>
> (*) I in no way mean to imply that james@email-addr-hidden-dot-dat.net is a twit.
Hey, no need to be formal. James will do. I only use my full name
for legal purposes.
-- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)Received on Sat Apr 2 04:15:05 2005
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