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Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:27:09 -0400
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on?
From: James Skinner <james.skinner@gmail.com>
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Top-posting is totally fine when emailing from a mobile device. It
does make it hard to follow a thread, but email's are time-stamped.
On 3/25/09, Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com> wrote:
> Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 22:49:57 -0500, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I don't mind top posting in private emails but not on the list. Who is
>>> it with that signature with the backward questions about top posting?
>>>
>>
>> This one?
>>
>> 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 on usenet and in e-mail?
>>
>> or this one?
>>
>> Q: Why is top-posting evil?
>> A: backwards read don't humans because
>>
>> Both have been in my tagfile for years.
>>
>>
>>
>
> The top one is the one I was thinking about. Funny thing is, it took me
> a couple reads the first time to figure out it was backwards. It really
> didn't make much sense.
>
> I do like the last one tho. That was cute. ;-)
>
> Dale
>
> :-) :-)
>
>
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