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From: Linda Walsh <cygwin@tlinx.org>
To: The Cygwin-Talk Maiming List <cygwin-talk@cygwin.com>
Subject: On why bottom posting....
Date: Fri, 09 May 2014 00:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <536C25B4.8050504@tlinx.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53680C04.6050609@cygwin.com>

Now I get why these people⃰⁽¹⁾ have so much of an issue
with top posting.  From this⃰⁽²⁾, I can see they are really
thinking of and expecting email to look like a chat-log or
irc-transcript.

They don't realize that some people use email to write
documents that include historical data for context.  But
like most good sources, will put the historical context information
at the end in an appendix.

Now if we can just get the bottom-posters to realize that by posting
the footnotes, historical data, and duplicate info at the top
of the document, they are more likely to lose the reader who is
only scanning the first half the page.


...(;^/) )...


---Endnotes---

⃰⁽¹⁾ - Larry Hall (Cygwin) wrote:
       Larry
_____________________________________________________________________
⃰⁽²⁾:
    A: Yes.
    > Q: Are you sure?
    >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
    >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email?

       reply	other threads:[~2014-05-09  0:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <20140505135928.GK30918@calimero.vinschen.de>
     [not found]   ` <53679D5C.5030209@breisch.org>
     [not found]     ` <20140505144745.GA6993@calimero.vinschen.de>
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     [not found]         ` <20140505154230.GB7694@calimero.vinschen.de>
     [not found]           ` <5367B990.8050907@breisch.org>
     [not found]             ` <20140505165723.GM30918@calimero.vinschen.de>
     [not found]               ` <5367DEE5.5010407@breisch.org>
     [not found]                 ` <5367EA1F.3060800@cygwin.com>
     [not found]                   ` <5368094E.7040806@breisch.org>
     [not found]                     ` <53680C04.6050609@cygwin.com>
2014-05-09  0:48                       ` Linda Walsh [this message]
2014-05-09  1:41                         ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-09 12:13                         ` Warren Young
2014-05-09 15:23                           ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-09 19:44                           ` Linda Walsh
2014-05-09 20:26                             ` Christopher Faylor
2014-05-12 16:59                             ` Warren Young

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