[nflug] for the top posters

[Daniel Colascione]

On Aug 25, 2008, at 3:57 AM, Eric wrote:
> I'm a Top-Poster simply because I can remember what other people  
> were talking about when they reply to me and want to see the next  
> part of the conversation first... don't need to re-read everything.

Bottom-postings lends itself to point-by-point replies. It makes it  
very easy to see exactly what's being discussed.

> Bottom posts confuse people who are used to instant messaging ....I  
> was thinking of writing a program that would allow people to left- 
> side post, but that would break the 80 character rule, oh well.

I have my IM program set up to display the last bit of conversation  
history whenever a new conversation begins with someone. It looks  
remarkably like bottom-posting.

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
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