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.

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