I notice that throughout your extended grumblings you have never managed to tell me how on Earth I'm supposed to stop this thing called top-posting.
Molu
On Wed, 31 May 2006 19:00:54 +1000 Mark Gallagher wrote:
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As for why he quoted it *above* his message, it's because he knows how to send emails. *Please* stop top-posting.
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On 5/31/06, Molu loom91@yahoo.com wrote:
I notice that throughout your extended grumblings you have never managed to tell me how on Earth I'm supposed to stop this thing called top-posting.
Molu
Top-posting is replying to the email above the quoted text. See your text up there --^, if I had been top-posting, it would have been down there --v. Hope this helps. --LV
On 5/31/06, Molu loom91@yahoo.com wrote:
I notice that throughout your extended grumblings you have never managed to tell me how on Earth I'm supposed to stop this thing called top-posting.
It's very simple. When you click "reply", move the cursor down to the bottom of the email (you can do this by holding down the "down" arrow on your keyboard), delete the signature of the person who wrote the previous email, and type your reply. If you want to be polite, you can also delete the irrelevant parts of the previous email.
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Molu stated for the record:
I notice that throughout your extended grumblings you have never managed to tell me how on Earth I'm supposed to stop this thing called top-posting.
Molu
There is a Web site called "Wikipedia" that has articles on that sort of thing. Try http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_posting
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On 5/31/06, Molu loom91@yahoo.com wrote:
I notice that throughout your extended grumblings you have never managed to tell me how on Earth I'm supposed to stop this thing called top-posting.
Sorry to be uncivil, but I notice that throughout his extended grumblings, he has never explained *why* people should not top-post. It seems to me to be a question of taste, and both forms have their advantages and disadvantages. Someone is sure to point me to an RFC which proves that the unix community decided once and for all that top-posting is evil, but amongst the wider community of internet users, I don't think there is anything remotely approaching consensus.
If top-posting is preventing people reading or following conversations, then by all means point it out in private mail. But these continued petulant "I have fixed your top-posting" remarks are actually more annoying than the supposed sin they're addressing.
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Steve
Don't do it because it disrupts the flow of conversation, and takes things out of context. There, I have explained it, probably by violating WP:POINT, but I doubt I will be RfAr-ed for a malformatted email.
--Sam
On 01/06/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/31/06, Molu loom91@yahoo.com wrote:
I notice that throughout your extended grumblings you have never managed to tell me how on Earth I'm supposed to stop this thing called top-posting.
Sorry to be uncivil, but I notice that throughout his extended grumblings, he has never explained *why* people should not top-post. It seems to me to be a question of taste, and both forms have their advantages and disadvantages. Someone is sure to point me to an RFC which proves that the unix community decided once and for all that top-posting is evil, but amongst the wider community of internet users, I don't think there is anything remotely approaching consensus.
If top-posting is preventing people reading or following conversations, then by all means point it out in private mail. But these continued petulant "I have fixed your top-posting" remarks are actually more annoying than the supposed sin they're addressing.
</rant>
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I like top-posting, because I am a man from an opposite universe, where time runs backwards. Thus, from your limited perspective, when I read a top-posting thread, I start from the top and work my way done, with all the annoyances reading in reverse implies, but really in my time system, I am actually reading the first one at the bottom and first and then continuing in order, which is nice and convenient. I am glad to see a fellow expatriate like Molu in this crazy mixedup non-backwards universe!
~maru
On 6/1/06, Sam Pointon free.condiments@gmail.com wrote:
Don't do it because it disrupts the flow of conversation, and takes things out of context. There, I have explained it, probably by violating WP:POINT, but I doubt I will be RfAr-ed for a malformatted email.
--Sam
On 01/06/06, Steve Bennett stevagewp@gmail.com wrote:
On 5/31/06, Molu loom91@yahoo.com wrote:
I notice that throughout your extended grumblings you have never managed to tell me how on Earth I'm supposed to stop this thing called top-posting.
Sorry to be uncivil, but I notice that throughout his extended grumblings, he has never explained *why* people should not top-post. It seems to me to be a question of taste, and both forms have their advantages and disadvantages. Someone is sure to point me to an RFC which proves that the unix community decided once and for all that top-posting is evil, but amongst the wider community of internet users, I don't think there is anything remotely approaching consensus.
If top-posting is preventing people reading or following conversations, then by all means point it out in private mail. But these continued petulant "I have fixed your top-posting" remarks are actually more annoying than the supposed sin they're addressing.
</rant>
Steve