[Tfug] Netiquette police: top-posting

Benjamin Krein superbenk at superk.org
Thu Nov 3 21:09:50 MST 2005


One final note from me on the top vs. bottom-positing.  I have a wifi- 
enabled PDA that I often use to check my email with and I have it  
setup to only get a certain amount of each message before truncating  
so my mail sync is much faster.  With those who like to bottom-post,  
it's very likely that your message will get lost in the truncation  
which is most annoying (especially when I can't check mail again and  
manually download the entire message for a long time - ie, I sync  
just before getting on a plane/car and am not around wifi for a long  
while).  This to me is a major nuisance that could have easily been  
avoided by top-posting.  I'd lose some context, but so what?  Maybe  
I'm unique in this scenario, but I do use my PDA a lot for mail  
reading and have run into this before.

There you have my second vote for top-posting... Top-Posting Nazi,  
have at me!

Benjamin Krein
www.superk.org

PS You're all welcome for the following missing quote stuffs...

<snip> :)


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