1 Apr
2005
1 Apr
'05
6:13 p.m.
On Fri, 01 Apr, 2005 at 10:41AM -0500, Joe Hartley spake thus:
On Fri, 1 Apr 2005 14:55:11 +0100
james(a)dis-dot-dat.net wrote:
Hey, no need to be formal. James will do. I only use my full name
for legal purposes.
--
"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated
Development
That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
A. Because it breaks the logical order of
conversation.
Q. Why is top posting bad?
Q: What's worse than top posting?
A: Lazy twits(*) who can't be bothered to actually edit the message they're
replying to. This is especially bad when a member of a digest version
of a list replies.
FWIW, I blame the purveyors of mail programs that don't include the
message being replied to as editable text in the message. I also blame
them for ruining email with HTML, but that's another rant.
(*) I in no way mean to imply that james(a)dis-dot-dat.net is a twit.