On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 10:41AM -0500, Joe Hartley spake thus: > On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:55:11 +0100 > james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > A. Because it breaks the logical order of conversation. > > Q. Why is top posting bad? > > Q: What's worse than top posting? > A: Lazy twits(*) who can't be bothered to actually edit the message they're > replying to. This is especially bad when a member of a digest version > of a list replies. > > FWIW, I blame the purveyors of mail programs that don't include the > message being replied to as editable text in the message. I also blame > them for ruining email with HTML, but that's another rant. > > (*) I in no way mean to imply that james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx is a twit. Hey, no need to be formal. James will do. I only use my full name for legal purposes. -- "I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you." (By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
