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[Ronn! Blankenship]

At 10:48 AM Sunday 4/20/2008, Nick Arnett wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 5:28 PM, Charlie Bell <charlie at culturelist.org> wrote:
>
> > Generally just quoting the text you're replying to. Top posting works
> > in some environments, but doesn't work so well in discussion forums
> > where one is trying to answer many points. There are some guidelines
> > somewhere... Paging Nick! Nick Arnett to the courtesy phone!
>
>
>I think there are people on this list who despise top-posting.  And will
>probably make pithy statements about it, such as "*top*-posters tend to
>write codswallop," which I found quickly with Google.  ;-)
>
>Nick



A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?


GCU Cart Before The Horse, Maru


. . . ronn!  :)