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Re: [Phys-l] top posting



I usually, IIRC, extract the most relevant from a long quote and post between the extract and the long quote. If it's a long thread, by the time I post, I may top post or not even quote.

bc middle poster.

On 2011, Jan 27, , at 10:15, chuck britton wrote:

Bottom posting (without trimming) will never catch on with a list such as this.

(The Subject: sez it all for many of us.)

(and I have difficulty believing that this is what you find
most annoying ;-) )


At 7:34 PM -0700 1/26/11, John Denker wrote:
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
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