On 2007-11-23 21:58, David Kelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Nov 22, 2007, at 9:10 PM, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> Understood from that perspective, perhaps you can see why people >> might dislike top posting. > > Many here (and elsewhere) will not reply to a top-poster.
I am one of these people. If I see a top-posted message -- totally incomprehensible, full of errors, misformattings, and other annoying bits, including mutilated quotes with completely messed up quoting, and semi-randomly wrapped text -- then it instantly rings a very important bell: "The author of this message does not care enough to put some effort into writing a properly formatted, readable reply. If he doesn't care enough to make his message readable, do you really want to spend the effort to _read_ it?" The answer is, surprisingly often, "No, I don't think I want to do that". _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
