Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2003 12:34:32 -0800 From: Johnson David <DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> To: Doug Barton <DougB@FreeBSD.org>, Joshua Lokken <bsdaemon@eudoramail.com> Cc: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Top posting Message-ID: <200302261234.32431.DavidJohnson@Siemens.com> In-Reply-To: <20030226114133.W5357@znfgre.tberna.bet> References: <NKCIBJDOKLMIHBAA@whowhere.com> <20030226114133.W5357@znfgre.tberna.bet>
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A CEO, vice president, director, or anyone else who thinks PowerPoint is the pinnacle of technology, would be posting their reply in this area. This is probably because their mail client has topposting on by default. On Wednesday 26 February 2003 11:42 am, Doug Barton wrote: > On Wed, 26 Feb 2003, Joshua Lokken wrote: > > Hey newbies > > > > Why do people not like topposting in replies? It seems that (from > > my experience) that the business world in general _always_ topposts > > replies. > > A) 30 years of tradition. > B) This isn't the business world. But anyone else, within or without the business world, would be posting their repy here. Bottom posting makes sense because it puts the reply into context. People like to read from top to bottom. They don't like to read from bottom to top just to figure out what the heck the reply is talking about. For a 4 or 5 line post it doesn't matter too much. But for a 4 or 5 PAGE post, it makes a big difference. David To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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