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rg grant at tuins.ac.jp
Wed Dec 17 06:59:09 UTC 2003


jason pearl wrote:

>what is top posting???
>
It's an a-rententive obsession on Fedora/Red Hat lists that some people 
get just too worked up over. Anyway, it means responding to a message at 
the top, rather than below.  In the real world, replying on top is done 
as a courtesy to make it easy to read new information - so as not to 
force the reader to go searching through a mile of much to find what you 
have to say. 

In theory, bottom posting on a list is supposed to make it easy to deal 
with threads - you know, so it becomes easier to deal with a string of 
messages. It is a valid point, though some people seem to get abnormally 
worked up about.  Happy bottom posting.

ralston






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