Well for instance ... It makes it so the conversation is ass backwards... You usually read a book from the top down... Not bottom up. FYI... I am not normally a top poster.
-----Original Message----- From: John Manko [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 9:38 AM To: gentoo-desktop@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop] Unsubscribe What's the big deal? Is top posting bad posting practice? Chris Ritchey wrote: >On 8/17/05, Uwe Thiem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>On 17 August 2005 19:32, Justin Denick wrote: >> >> >>>Please excuse me for this question, but what is "top posting" >>> >>> >>It's what you are doing. Replying at the top of the email you are replying >>to. ;-) >> >>Uwe >> >> > >Thank You! I was wondering what top-posting was as well and all these >idiotic responses of "you just did it" does help cause then one would >just go "What did I do? as far as I know I just replied." > > > >>>On 8/17/05, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> >>>>On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 13:24:31 -0400, Willie Wong wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>>Wow! This is spectacular! Not only did he sent out the unsubscribe >>>>>mail the (most popular) wrong way, he also made the faux pas of >>>>>hijacking a thread! If only two wrongs can make a right q= >>>>> >>>>> >>>>At least he didn't top post or use HTML :) >>>> >>>> >>>>-- >>>>Neil Bothwick >>>> >>>>The geek shall inherit the earth. >>>> >>>> >>-- >>95% of all programmers rate themselves among the top 5% of all software >>developers. - Linus Torvalds >> >>http://www.uwix.iway.na (last updated: 20.06.2004) >>-- >>gentoo-desktop@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> >> >> > > > > -- gentoo-desktop@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-desktop@gentoo.org mailing list
