Re: [gentoo-user] VIM Undo Command - don't do top posting

[Stroller <stroller@stellar.eclipse.co.uk>]

On 8 Dec 2008, at 13:21, KH 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?

Could I possibly ask you to refrain from making replies to the list  
with this as the only contribution?

I refer also to your posts of 3 December 2008 09:09:59 GMT & 24  
October 2008 08:48:20 BST.

I see now that on this occasion you've been sensible enough to add to  
the subject line, but my initial assumption is that this is a "bug" of  
some sort and that some idiot has replied with only their signature.  
It is clearly very irritating to have to scroll through a whole long  
message of unabridged quoted text, to find nothing relevant to the  
subject.

I personally think that you'll never win the war against top-posting.  
But then my personal grudge is against those who quote in the opposite  
fashion to those who preceded them in the thread - I find a flow of  
quoting that is interrupted FAR less legible than the 3 short message  
sections, all concise, clear and top-posted, that you replied to.

Stroller.