Top Posting, was Re: ASR33 $1000+ And Counting... subject changed

Tom Jennings tomj at wps.com
Thu Feb 24 20:30:31 CST 2005


On Thu, 24 Feb 2005, Marvin Johnston wrote, and not about ASR33's:

> 1) Since almost everyone on this (and other lists I've been on) have an
> aversion to changing the subject line to reflect a new topic ...

D'OH! I am guilty of this too.

> including the message I am replying to :), top posting gives the reader
> a *quick* way to see if they are interested in the new, totally wrong
> subject hearder, topic.

If it's well-composed, top isn't so bad, (eg. trimming heavily),
and there are occasions when it's proper, but for conversational
stuff, like this, even us RPN types like Roman left to right, top
to bottom texts :-)

I'm far too lazy to war over it.



Well-edited top-posting beats the crap out of bottom-posted
non-edited any day!

> 5000 lines of allthatcrapIreadbefore

Me too.




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