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[PFJ]

Hi,

> >what is top posting???
> >
> It's an a-rententive obsession on Fedora/Red Hat lists that some people 
> get just too worked up over. 

Nope. It's not a case of that, it's a case of following the RFCs and
also how people conduct conversations. When was the last time you called
a friend and gave them an answer to a question they ask after you're
finished.

> 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. 

What rot! You go to *any* technical usenet group (excluding MS specific
ones) and top post - you'll be shot down in flames! Why is simple. Say
you ask a number of questions and someone top posts answers, it is never
clear what they're answering to (even if they include the entire
previous 8 postings as they've not discovered the ctrl-x combination
yet) and so the number of mistakes and misconceptions which occur leap
up.

The biggest misconception is that it saves time. Sure, if the example is
simple enough (how are you?) then it's not that bad. However, in the
above example, the reader (who may not be as knowledgeable as the
sender) will have to work through not only the answer, but try to marry
it up to the points raised. That takes a hell of a lot of time in some
cases.

> 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. Posting in context (rather than straight bottom posting) makes
things even easier still.

> It is a valid point, though some people seem to get abnormally 
> worked up about.  Happy bottom posting.

Contextual posting is better :-)

TTFN

Paul
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