top posting, HTML posting and "the closer"

[Gustavo Seabra]

On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 13:24:41 -0600, Thomas Cameron
<thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
> You haven't answered my question...  Why is this such a big deal?
> Seriously?  I'm not trying to troll or flame-bait.  I genuinely don't
> understand why it is such a big deal.

I agree with you that it's not that big a deal. However, if we have a
convention, I also don't think it's that big of a deal to try to
follow them, just for the sake of the community (even if just to avoid
a war like this...)
 
> I guess I just don't understand why the vociferous minority should rule.

What do you mean by "vociferous minority"? In an open comminity such
as this one, everyone has a say. Look at the threads this dicussion
generated. Most of the answers prefer not to top post. I don't really
believe this is a minority. But anyway, one could always call a
poll...

> "Because it's always been that way" isn't a valid answer.  If that were the
> case then we'd still be required to marry our brother's wife if he died and
> kill people who work on Sunday.  :-o

That I agree completely. However, this isn't the only reason. There
have been extensive discussions on why we prefer bottom post / trim
instead of top posting. There's a ctually a logical reasoning about
it. Of course, none of that justifies bullying someone for not
following these rules once in a while.


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