Top Posting Makes The Theoanthropos Cry

Jeff Wilson · 29 Aug 2006, 05:11 · from 2006-August.txt.gz

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From: jwilson at io.com (Jeff Wilson)
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 00:11:19 -0500
Subject: (urth) Top Posting Makes The Theoanthropos Cry
In-Reply-To: <1f7617370608281051y6d14865ej254db0b959c5b743 at mail.gmail.com>
References: <44F1FF19.2000904 at io.com>	<1f7617370608272203p3d604840hd2b6869e6548b148 at mail.gmail.com>	<44F27D52.3060508 at io.com>
	<1f7617370608281051y6d14865ej254db0b959c5b743 at mail.gmail.com>
Message-ID: <44F3CC77.9050104 at io.com>

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes wrote:

> On 8/27/06, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>When would people *need* to write a coherent reply without
>>coinscribing or interleaving, or just plain bottom posting like I'm
>>doing now?
> 
> 
> When writing real letters on paper. It's something of an art that I
> don't want to vanish from our culture.
> 
> (And,  see, I _do_ bottom-post when it makes sense to do so!)
> 

As a counterexample, top-posting has apparently addled one poster here 
to the point where he replies to my post as if you wrote it, 
complimenting you on a sig that it does not contain!

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