On Thursday 24 April 2008, KH wrote: > Hi, > > what does top post mean?
It means the way you are replying to messages. When you reply, your answer goes below the bit you are responding to and not above like you are doing. The reason is that most people on support lists are sane rational people who read things from beginning to end (top to bottom) and like things in date order. Very few of us start a book at the back and read towards the front, yet top-posting forces everyone else to do exactly that. You will find people who have thousands of reasons why top-posting is OK but they are all very selfish. Around here it's mostly considered rather rude. Microsoft are directly responsible for this current disease of an entire generation of users who read backwards. Top posting is Outlook's default - no-one knows why. No-one knows why Microsoft does the things they do. Here in Gentoo-world, we do stuff the right way. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
