Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 09:21 -0600, Steve Lindemann wrote:
> Ric Moore wrote:
> > Top posting is universally despised among Linux and Usenet users for
> > years and doing so is the mark of a newbie user who comes from a
> > Windows-centric background, where such things are condoned like having
> > drive letters instead of names. 
> 
> I've been trying to explain to one of my windoze centric co-workers why 
> top posting is not appropriate and couldn't find the right words.  Thank 
> you!  List ettiquete has always been a contentious issue, right from the 
> beginning when we etched our missives using rock tablets (I vaguely 
> remember it 8^) but I've always read from left to right and top to 
> bottom and it's hard, for me anyway, to go at it backwards.

A: Because it makes threads harder to follow.
Q: Why is top-posting frowned on?

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