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[Cryptography] ADMIN: What is top posting,
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Perry E. Metzger)
Mon Aug 26 13:07:52 2013
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Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2013 13:07:31 -0400
From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@piermont.com>
To: cryptography@metzdowd.com
Errors-To: cryptography-bounces+crypto.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@metzdowd.com
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?
[Yes, this is a re-run, but it needed saying. Also, please trim as
much as possible from messages you are quoting in replies, keeping
only the sections needed to maintain context for the reader.]
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Perry E. Metzger perry@piermont.com
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