A plea to the persistent top posters.

Christopher A. Williams chrisw01 at privatei.com
Tue Sep 23 16:50:43 UTC 2003


On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 06:46, nosp wrote:
<snip...>

> Please let's not start a war.  Just deal with what people use unless
> it's horribly wrong and could use correction -- then do it as a reply to
> the offending post.  At the least a link to an authoritative netiquette
> site would justify your request.  I did a quick google search and
> quickly found that business users / newer internet users are thought to
> be the typical top-posters (as an old internet user and a business user,
> I can corroborate that).
> 
> Below are some discussions I found.  Bottom line: bottom-posting is the
> norm for usenet news and should be the default (but not only) option for
> geek email.

<snip...>

Of note, the default setting in Ximian Evolution is for top-posting.
Anyone know how to change the default for that?

Cheers,

Chris

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