12 Nov
2009
12 Nov
'09
12:43 p.m.
On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Jorge Salgueiro wrote:
Top post is a question of accesibility to the blind.
They shouldn't
have to listen to 30 posts every time they want to contribute. So if
you don't what no linux Stevie wonder to post in this list is your
decision. But I don't agree with it.
Part of bottom-posting is trimming the quoted content so there are not
thirty previous posts to skip over. Sometimes I don't even quote at all
if the subject line contains enough context that a reader ought to be
able to get it.
(Somebody already previously said all this though...)
--
+ Brent A. Busby + "We've all heard that a million monkeys
+ UNIX Systems Admin + banging on a million typewriters will
+ University of Chicago + eventually reproduce the entire works of
+ Physical Sciences Div. + Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet,
+ James Franck Institute + we know this is not true." -Robert Wilensky