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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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> > 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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> 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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> Dale |
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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 more than |
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a single answer. With top posting we would need to send many response emails |
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to respond with clarity to all points the OP may have raised. With inline |
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responses we can interlace the answers in the OP's message and the logical |
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flow of the conversation is retained within a single response email. |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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