Why does bottom posting suck?
On 4/4/06, Alphax (Wikipedia email) alphasigmax@gmail.com wrote:
David Alexander Russell wrote:
Steve Bennett wrote:
On 4/4/06, David Alexander Russell webmaster@davidarussell.co.uk wrote:
Because any modification of the message post-sending would royally screw any digital signing of the message (which me, Alphax, and a couple of other people use on this list) which relies on a hash computed at the time of sending by the user's encryption program
Heh, in this case, there is no problem - anyone likely to use PGP to sign their messages is extremely unlikely to forget to trim their message footers. And the worst case scenario is that you do forget to trim a message footer, it gets done for you, and someone's mail reader says "this PGP message does not compute" and checks with you.
So, a small number of messages from a small number of users would cause a small problem.
True - but could I add that if everyone put their message ABOVE the quoted text, rather than below, then this issue would be moot anyway (since we wouldn't need to go through the endless footers in order to get to the message)
A: Yes.
Q: Are you sure?
A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
Q: Why is top posting frowned upon?
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Because you had to wade your way through all that crap just for this stupid remark. Ok, let's move on, shall we?
Steve