Top Posting Makes The Theoanthropos Cry

b sharp · 28 Aug 2006, 10:38 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: bsharporflat at hotmail.com (b sharp)
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:38:06 -0400
Subject: (urth) Top Posting Makes The Theoanthropos Cry
Message-ID: <BAY103-F391202E1661A2A81EA6C1DD7380 at phx.gbl>

I, for one, find top posting to be preferable in many cases.  Especially 
when a response is more general in nature as opposed to point by point.  I 
find it annoying to have to re-read (or skip over) paragraphs of stuff I've 
already read in previous posts just to get to the content of the current 
post.

-bsharp

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