Re: top posting (was: Hijack!)

On Dec 11, 2007, at 12:00 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:

> On Dec 11, 2007 11:41 AM, Leif B. Kristensen <leif(at)solumslekt(dot)org>
> wrote:
>>
>> It certainly isn't a crime. But it's a bit like thread hijacking
>> in the
>> sense that a well-formed inline posting is more likely to attract
>> intelligent replies. I don't think that I'm the only one who tends to
>> skip top posting replies on mailing lists.
>
> You're certainly not. I can't tell you how many times I've carefully
> replied to someone with inline quoting, only to get some top post
> response. I then ask them politely not to top post, fix the format,
> reply, and get another top post reponse.
>
> At that point I just move on to the next thread.

The funniest is when that second top post response is "What's a top
post?"

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