top posting netiquette
Jeff Vian
jvian10 at charter.net
Fri Sep 29 21:23:35 UTC 2006
On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 09:25 +0100, Thufir wrote:
> Hiya,
>
> Of course, this is an e-mail list. I prefer to read it as an nntp group
> via gmane. So, in e-mail top posting (for whatever reason) is the norm,
> while, in nntp land (usenet), top posting is frowned upon.
>
Within an organization, or a conversation between 2 or 3 persons it is
not out of bounds to top post since that is a private conversation.
Within an email list top posting is impossible (or nearly so) to follow
for one not reading every single post.
See my other answer to this for references.
> I'm reading this list via gmane. Top posting is in or out?
>
>
> -Thufir
>
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