[PLUG] Top-Posting (was: Re: Metrofi wins Rogue of the Week)

[Brian Beattie]

On 1/10/2008, "Ken Hill" <ken at scottshill.com> wrote:

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>[mailto:plug-bounces at lists.pdxlinux.org] On Behalf Of Rogan Creswick
>Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2008 2:15 PM
>To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help, civil and on-topic
>Subject: [PLUG] Top-Posting (was: Re: Metrofi wins Rogue of the Week)
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>On Jan 10, 2008 1:58 PM, kurt braget <joehaircut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Jan 10, 2008 7:53 AM, Paul Johnson <baloo at ursine.ca> wrote:
>> >Please don't top-post...
>>
>> if i knew what a top-post was, and if i knew why it was bad, i wouldn't do
>> it. sorry to ruffle your feathers.
>
>Top-posting is ...
...
>I agree with this, but unfortunately many email clients default to the
>process of replying with the previous message below and not on top.

so get a better mail client, or take the effort to work around it.  Good
communication is hard enough with out adding to the problem.

BTW you should also trim the quotes to the relevent protion.
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