Re: [SLUG] Now: An example of why top posting is bad. Was: 580 Unbuntu 5.04 Hoary Discs

From: Dave Lowe (davedorm@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Sep 30 2005 - 13:20:52 EDT


On 9/30/05, jhaydon <jhaydon@stewartsigns.com> wrote:
> It confuses the people at work, if I post on the bottom. (So much for trying to
> educate the masses.)

I very rarely top-post. It's really crappy. And I always trim the
quotes. I despise mailing list emails where I get the last seventeen
replies under a one-liner. "Yeah, what he said" indeed!

> Shrunk and White have written a book on proper email writing if we
> want to be that anal.

I wonder what that book would be like.

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