[Tfug] Netiquette police: top-posting

[Brian Murphy]

Quoting sitkaa at email.arizona.edu:
> Quoting Claude Rubinson <rubinson at u.arizona.edu>:
>> Not directed at anyone in particular but there's been a rash of people
>> top-posting lately.  It's really annoying.
>> ....
>> Thanks!
>>
>> Claude
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>
> Now That I know what top-posting is, I will strive, when replying to
> TFUG posts,
> to bottom post. To be honest, I never knew there was another way.
> Top-posting is
> where I expect the reply to be, generally, and that is where I look for
> it. But
> whatever. If etiquette requires taking extra steps to read email, then ce la
> vie. Personally, however, top-posting is easier for me to read.


If you write contextual (bottom-post), you're supposed to trim the cruft
like signatures out of the message.  This is so that we don't have to
jump between the original post's listserv footer and your response.

Brian

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