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On Mon, 1 Sep 2008, Michael Leone wrote:
> This is "top posting" - putting your answer/comment before the question.
>
> Just move down under the text you are replying to. I use GMail (in
> it's guise as Google Apps).
>
> A guess - the people who are complaining about top posting are Linux users? :-)
Who also get full screen read out of the mail. I find bottom posting
irritating because I have to scroll down. If the top poster would just
use a journalistic entry, ie a ten cent explanation about what he or she
is writing about. it might solve the issue. I admit that I fail to do
that myself.
bs
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> On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Mag Gam <magawake@gmail.com> wrote:
> > this is probally a stupid question, but what exactly is 'top posting'?
> > I use gmail to access my mailing lists and people always complain that
> > I 'top post'. I am not sure how to avoid it. Is it a client issue or
> > something else? I would like to fix this on my end if possible.
> >
> > TIA
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