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Re: Top posting vs Bottom posting



On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 12:18:52PM +0100, Sander Marechal wrote:
> Nuno Magalhães wrote:

[snip]

> 
> For a real mailinglist (such as this) there is no such benefit when top
> posting. Everyone already has all the previous messages because they are
> subscribed here, and in the rare case you want to involve someone who is

isn't that a reason for top posting, if you have already read the
previous emails, don't you want to just get to the new information with
out having to read the stuff you just read in the previous email ?

> not subscribed yet then you can point them to the public archive. In
> this case top posting onmly has downsides and no benefit.
> 

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