[time-nuts] Subject: Listening to the List Owner

Stewart Bryant stewart at g3ysx.org.uk
Wed Sep 21 12:31:43 UTC 2011


On 21/09/2011 13:12, Mike S wrote:
> At 07:43 AM 9/21/2011, Rob Kimberley wrote...
>> I appreciate the subtle humour here, but virtually all people I
>> communicate
>> with top post, and I've been using email since the early 90s. It is only
>> groups like this where it seems to be a problem. Maybe it is a
>> function of
>> the mail reader that is being used, (not sure on that one), but I
>> think you
>> will find that you are in the minority.
>
> Microsoft (Exchange), RIM (Blackberry), and Google (Android), all make
> it difficult-to-impossible to _not_ top post. But they're all clueless
> net newbies, too.

If you look at the IETF lists (where you will find a high proportion
of clueful net oldies) you will see that top posting is at least
as common, if not more common, than bottom posting.

Stewart




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