Re: top posting netiquette


The war against top posting is a lost cause, but

On Fri, 29 Sep 2006, Charles Curley wrote:

On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:25:31AM +0100, Thufir wrote:
Hiya,

Of course, this is an e-mail list. I prefer to read it as an nntp group
via gmane. So, in e-mail top posting (for whatever reason) is the norm,
while, in nntp land (usenet), top posting is frowned upon.

I'm reading this list via gmane. Top posting is in or out?

Top posting is discourage if not outright prohibited on most lists and
by long established netiquette. I believe it is a no-no on this list,
but don't have a citation handy.

http://www.charlescurley.com/netiquette.html



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one should at least trim the boilerplate.

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