Top posting

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:13:37 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 19:35:48 -0500, Lucas Holt wrote:
>> Aside from mailing lists, I tend to be a top poster.  I don't like
>> when people leave the last 12 emails and then bottom post..
>
> "Bottom posting", where you leave the entire previous message, is only
> marginally better than top posting.

On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:15:14 +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to
> show why top-posting is bad.  See the previous message (Message ID
> 20040322004337.GX52612 at wantadilla.lemis.com) for a version that I
> consider understandable.

On Monday, 22 March 2004 at 11:16:07 +1030, Greg Lehey wrote:
> The following message is the second in a series of three, intended to
> show why bottom-posting (where a reply is completely separate from the
> original message) is bad.  See the first message (Message ID
> 20040322004337.GX52612 at wantadilla.lemis.com) for a version that I
> consider understandable.

You might also like to count the length of the three messages.  The
one with the interleaved answers is the shortest.  This is because I
trimmed unnecessary text.

Greg
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