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On March 28, 2017 5:32:04 PM GMT+02:00, Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote: |
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>Mick wrote: |
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>> On Tuesday 28 Mar 2017 09:05:04 Dale wrote: |
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>>> Danny YUE wrote: |
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>>>> Just curious: why is top-posting forbidden here? |
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>>>> I have never found any reference for that. |
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>>>> |
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>>>> I would appreciate it if you could tell me something about that. |
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>>>> Danny |
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>>> Here is one but there are tons of others. |
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>https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/articles/mailing-list-faq/etiquette.html#idp5 |
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>>> 5147880 |
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>>> |
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>>> Also, on this list, html is frowned upon as well. Plain text is |
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>>> requested, although some devices may not have the option. |
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>>> |
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>>> Dale |
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>>> |
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>>> :-) :-) |
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>> I thought the original joke went like this: |
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>> A. Top posters |
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>> Q. What's the most annoying thing on Usenet? |
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>> A: Because it upsets the logical flow of the thread. |
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>> Q: Why is top posting a bad idea? |
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>> Anyway, Gentoo users often ask multifaceted questions which require |
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>more than |
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>> a single answer. With top posting we would need to send many |
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>response emails |
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>> to respond with clarity to all points the OP may have raised. With |
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>inline |
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>> responses we can interlace the answers in the OP's message and the |
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>logical |
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>> flow of the conversation is retained within a single response email. |
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>> |
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>I have actually seen that in people's sig before. I can't recall who |
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>it |
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>was and haven't seen it in a while. |
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>I bottom post if it is somewhat a single subject or inline post if it |
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>has more than one topic. As you say, it makes it easier to know what |
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>one is talking about. I use what I feel will work best. Top posting |
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>tho, as your example/joke points out, makes it hard to figure out what |
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>is going on, even if one is following the thread. Of course, I also |
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>realize that some devices make that hard or impossible. Most who use |
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>those devices say they are. |
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>Dale |
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>:-) :-) |
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I use multiple devices. All modern phones have apps that allow bottom posting as default. |
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Inline is more difficult, which is why I leave those replies for when I have a real PC. |
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-- |
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Joost |
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