Re: LUGs in the Chicago area

On Wed, 2011-01-19 at 16:11 -0600, Martin Maney wrote:
> The choice you ignore, even though it's still very common in every
> list I'm hooked up to, the *good* choice, is to keep the important
> part of the old message(s) and append one's pithy thoughts in that
> context.  If that makes it hard for some nitwit with an inadequate
> display because my first words don't appear out of context at the top
> when he opens it, well, I don't much care for the sorts of replies
> such folks usually write.  They are who Twitter was meant for. 

THIS x 1000


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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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W. Scott Lockwood III


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