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ADMIN: What is top posting, and why should you avoid it?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Tue Jun 3 21:06:16 2008
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:00:21 -0400
A3: Please.
Q3: Should I avoid top posting on this mailing list?
A2: Because, by reversing the order of a conversation, it leaves the
reader without much context, and makes them read a message in an
unnatural order.
Q2: Why is top posting irritating?
A1: It is the practice of putting your reply to a message before the
quoted message, instead of after the (trimmed) message.
Q1: What is top posting?
Perry
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