Top-Posting (WAS: Re: is it possible to change apt-get's access priorities?)
--- "Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org> wrote:
> Please note that top-quoting is not the preferred quoting method for
> mailing lists and newsgroups. By placing your replies after relevant
I cannot agree more with this, Monique, but you and I (and others) both
know that such suggestions will just go un-heeded, and people will _still_
continue to top-post. I personally delete all top-posted e-mails and
refuse to answer them.
> quotes, you allow readers to more easily follow the conversation, and
> this gives you a better chance of getting your questions answered. It
> also makes it easier for people later searching the archive to gain
> useful information from these messages.
Absolutely. To be able to see the flow of conversation, rather than seeing
a paragraph at the top of an e-maikl, out of context is far more
preferrable. To which, I urge anyone who thinks of top-posting to read the
following that was taken from the LUG I am a member of:
http://www.hantslug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MailingList/TopPosting
-- Thomas Adam
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