On Sun, 13 Oct 2002, Joe just had to get this off his chest:
Steven T. Hatton wrote:
It has come time to state my position on top-posting. In the traditional world of usenet and mailing list, long before the Ring Wraiths of Redmond had spread their darkness over the Internet, it was considered common courtesy to reply to a message by adding ones responses, either in-line, after the comment to which a particular response was directed, or at the bottom of the quoted text.
Actuyally, now that I think about it. there is one place where top posting is apprpriate, when I forward a message, I place a breif comment at the top
Yes, so do I, but a forwarded message is usually /not/ part of an ongoing discussion. It's more like a post-it note on an internal memo. Theo -- Theo v. Werkhoven Registered Linux user# 99872 http://counter.li.org ICBM 52 8 24N , 4 32 40E. SuSE 8.0 x86 Kernel 2.4.16-4GB See headers for PGP/GPG info.