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- Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2007 13:50:56 +0900
- From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@??>
- Subject: Re: [tlug] Top posting craziness
- References: <28f065a80702111638j4ec7d4eaj3862ccc1c496d7c8@example.com> <20070212032815.f3eb2be6.godwin.stewart@example.com>
Godwin Stewart writes: > It's for lazy users. Lazy because they need previous correspondance > available for "convenient reference", and lazy because the whole > top-posting stupidity started through a well-known virus propagation > engine pretending to be an MUA C'mon Godwin, surely you know better than that. Top-posting, as advocated by some well-meaning individuals, is simply a port to email of the common business practice of scrawling a brief note on the cover memo to indicate approval of or comments on the attached document. It has a long history, longer than the existence of Windows, let alone the infestation of Outhouse on the desktop. (Specifically, it was already condemned by Emily Postnews in the Usenet Netiquette FAQ in 1980, when I first read it.) Like most ports it has problems not evident in the original. ;-) Top-posting is a reasonable convention in the context of business communications. That is carries over to discussion fora when users inured to such a convention invade the forum is unfortunate and to be opposed, but not at all unnatural.
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