[TowerTalk] G5RV

Steve Maki steve at oakcom.com
Sat Jan 3 23:14:51 EST 2004


N1SU wrote:

>> (notice how I correctly TOP POSTED this reply (so you don't have to
>> scroll through everything you have already read) and EDITED the footer
>> to remove all the extra crap!  Everyone should try this in 2004!!!)

>Uhh...  I respectully disagree.  Not everyone on the planet uses a
>brain-dead mail client that assumes people read message threads from the
>top down.  "Top posting" came about when PCs became so cheap that anyone
>who could afford one could start sending email.  Unfortunately, these new
>PC owners didn't learn that the norm was to keep only what you wanted to
>reply to and delete the rest, and then reply UNDERNEATH the quoted text.
>Nowadays, a horrid notion thought by many is that replying at the top of
>the message is the norm.

Thank you, thank you.

-- 
Steve K8LX


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