Posted by Eric Gisin on 12/26/34 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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