Top Posting Question

Steve Searle steve at stevesearle.com
Thu Oct 25 09:36:39 UTC 2007


Around 10:31am on Thursday, October 25, 2007 (UK time), Andrew Kelly scrawled:

> Heck, let's be honest here, there are times when a knock at my door will
> go unanswered. If I'm not available, deal with it, try again later.

<snip>

> the right circumstances. For me personally, I can't even fantasise about
> an email so important it can't wait 30 minutes to be read. But hey,

Ah, but is the reason you don't answer the door because you are
engrossed in answering email :-)

Steve

-- 

A:  Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q:  Why is top-posting a bad thing?

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