| Art Alexion on 1 Sep 2008 18:33:45 -0700 |
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Walt Mankowski wrote: > On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 06:47:40AM -0700, Mag Gam 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. > > It's something that's been discussed to death both here and elsewhere. > Please search Google (e.g. the very first hit on "top posting" is a > wikipedia article on the subject) instead of beating yet another dead > horse on this list. Wouldn't it have been easier to just say: Top posting is where your reply is on top of the text you are quoting, rather than beneath it like this response. Top posting is frowned upon mostly in =nix technical lists such as this one. Attachment:
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