[time-nuts] Posting style Was: looking for gooddescription/generalized model for time adjustments

Had had at to-way.com
Thu Jul 30 03:16:13 UTC 2009


Oh CRAP,

Here we go again. Top, Bottom, left and right posting has been 
debated on just about every news group since the beginning of time 
(maybe diagonal also) ......LET IT GO!!!

Had
K7MLR





At 07:25 PM 7/29/2009, you wrote:
>At 09:43 PM 7/29/2009, Chuck Harris wrote...
>>Top posting has been used since the very first email programs
>>were written... I was there.
>
>Really? You used READMAIL/SNDMSG, and exchanged emails with Ray Tomlinson?
>
>Bottom posting has been the preferred method from day 1 for USENET, 
>which is the medium most comparable to an email reflector.
>
>It's interesting, though, that most top-posting MUAs insist on 
>putting a new .sig all the way at the bottom. What's the logic behind that?
>
>>it was a real pain to have to download several pages of quoted
>>message only to see "me to" at the bottom.
>
>People who don't trim are even worse than top-posters.
>
>
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