Cellular phones topics - Re: Top Posting, was Re: Going to small claims court tomorrow against Sprint; any

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Re: Top Posting, was Re: Going to small claims court tomorrow against Sprint; any

Todd Allcock

2007-08-30, 4:33 am

At 29 Aug 2007 18:41:07 -0700 josh@phred.org wrote:

> A: Because answers logically *follow* questions!
>
> Q: Why should the quoted material be on top?

Alternately, one could argue:

A: Because you already just read the question in the last post or two
(or three!)

> Q: Why does top posting sometimes make sense?
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Top posting, IMO, is a style choice based on the situation.

While I'm not personally a big fan of it, I hate it FAR less than
bottom posting without ANY trimming. If I'm following a thread I
don't need to see every byte of it again and again in every single
post in the thread.

--

"I don't need my cell phone to play video games or take pictures
or double as a Walkie-Talkie; I just need it to work. Thanks for
all the bells and whistles, but I could communicate better with
ACTUAL bells and whistles." -Bill Maher 9/25/2003

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