On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:21 AM, Steve Lindemann <steve@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ric Moore wrote: > > > Top posting is universally despised among Linux and Usenet users for > > years and doing so is the mark of a newbie user who comes from a > > Windows-centric background, where such things are condoned like having > > drive letters instead of names. > > > > I've been trying to explain to one of my windoze centric co-workers why top > posting is not appropriate and couldn't find the right words. Thank you! > List ettiquete has always been a contentious issue, right from the beginning > when we etched our missives using rock tablets (I vaguely remember it 8^) > but I've always read from left to right and top to bottom and it's hard, for > me anyway, to go at it backwards. For whatever reason, outlook users seem handicapped when it comes to bottom posting. I have bottom posted a few times in replies to them and they have simply not seen the message -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
