|  | Posted by Eric Gisin on 09/29/34 11:30 
"Justin" <nospam@insightbb.com> wrote in message news:slrndl8fm1.sg8.nospam@debian.dns2go.com...>
 > Because not everyone receives every post in order, or at all. There may
 > not BE a rest of the crap.
 >
 Bullshit. UUCP is long gone.
 
 > If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
 > summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough
 > text of the original to give a context. This will make sure readers
 > understand when they start to read your response. Since NetNews,
 > especially, is proliferated by distributing the postings from one host
 > to another, it is possible to see a response to a message before seeing
 > the original.
 >
 Bullshit. Almost never happens.
 
 > Top-posting makes posts incomprehensible. Firstly: In normal
 > conversations, one does not answer to something that has not yet been
 > said. So it is unclear to reply to the top, whilst the original message
 
 Bullshit. Ever seen a blog, change log, etc.
 
 > is at the bottom. Secondly: In western society a book is normally read
 > from top to bottom. Top-posting forces one to stray from this
 > convention: Reading some at the top, skipping to the bottom to read the
 > question, and going back to the top to continue. This annoyance
 > increases even more than linear with the number of top-posts in the
 > message. If someone replies to a thread and you forgot what the thread
 > was all about, or that thread was incomplete for some reasons, it will
 > be quite tiresome to rapidly understand what the thread was all about,
 > due to bad posting and irrelevant text which has not been removed.
 
 More bullshit.
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