Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:03:13 -0500 From: Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> To: Bart Silverstrim <bsilver@chrononomicon.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Brent Jones <brent.jones@otago.ac.nz> Subject: Re: top posting (off-topic) Message-ID: <18247.2001.225405.533640@jerusalem.litteratus.org> In-Reply-To: <47470077.7030706@chrononomicon.com> References: <31AE442CCBC1094ABC40CE85B0149F06468CE8@MAIL1.registry.otago.ac.nz> <47470077.7030706@chrononomicon.com>
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Bart Silverstrim writes: > You're right in that top posting is a savings in effort. I disagree. It's not a savings, it's a transfer - moves the work from the poster to the reader. Make that "readers", because /every single reader/ has been imposed on to expend the effort. Looked at that way, it could be seen as not just lazy and stupid but outright hostile. Robert Huff
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