On Sat, Jun 13, 2020 at 10:21:19AM -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
> What is it with tech bulletin boards and the fuss about top-posting?
> I will bet I have gotten tens of thousands of business e-mail
> replies in my life and every single one of them was "top-posted." 

Business: building roads too fast to consider people driving on them
five years later?

> What is it about tech bulletin boards where folks seem to want the
> most relevant stuff -- the new stuff -- at the BOTTOM???

Why would they write books in such way that the ending is... at the end?

> I *like* Outlook.

Those who build their world have to live in it forever.

To each his own.

No problem, really.

I can see that the email is going to devolve, then there would be many
voices about how useless it is, so it should be replaced with
something more profitable.

I like replying to each part of somebody's mail separately, but if
others insist on doing it their way, sure, it is _their_ mail and they
can write it any way they like. So can I.

-- 
Regards,
Tomasz Rola

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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature.      **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home    **
** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened...      **
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