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On Thursday 24 April 2008, KH wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> what does top post mean? |
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It means the way you are replying to messages. When you reply, your |
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answer goes below the bit you are responding to and not above like you |
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are doing. |
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The reason is that most people on support lists are sane rational people |
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who read things from beginning to end (top to bottom) and like things |
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in date order. Very few of us start a book at the back and read towards |
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the front, yet top-posting forces everyone else to do exactly that. You |
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will find people who have thousands of reasons why top-posting is OK |
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but they are all very selfish. Around here it's mostly considered |
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rather rude. |
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Microsoft are directly responsible for this current disease of an entire |
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generation of users who read backwards. Top posting is Outlook's |
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default - no-one knows why. No-one knows why Microsoft does the things |
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they do. Here in Gentoo-world, we do stuff the right way. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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