How to curtail top posting !! - comp.sys.acorn.misc

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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2006 23:15:20 GMT
From: Harriet Bazley <baz...@feathermail.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: How to curtail top posting !!
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On 17 Jan 2006 as I do recall,
          Steve Hodgson wrote:

> I don't mean to be in any way inflammatory, but I have always been curious 
> why this particular group is more offended than most by top-posting. Are 
> there any technical reasons associated with the client software available or 
> is more historical than anything else?
> 
> I subscribe to a variety of OS- and software-related groups but rarely see 
> such a strong consensus within them.

I subscribe to a variety of non-computer related discussion groups, and
see a similar consensus in almost all of them -- in the ones where a
small number of people *do* top-post without being jumped on, it is very
noticeable that they are the ones with little or nothing to contribute.

I have a nasty feeling this may be due to the fact that their preferred
posting style makes detailed analysis rather difficult.

It does, of course, mean that one has nothing to lose by kill-filing
them!

-- 
Harriet Bazley                     ==  Loyaulte me lie ==

Abstinence makes the heart grow fonder.