[plug] National Bank against open source

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Wed Feb 4 14:55:29 WST 2004


James Devenish wrote:

| I think the problem is that when you reply to the list, it's often
| confusing to try to work out what your e-mail is on about. I'm often
| unsure *who* you are replying to (you quote multiple people's posts in
| your followups) and I'm not sure *what* you are replying to (you top-
| post instead of placing your comments below the relevant snippets).

Or to put it more succinctly:

A: Because it breaks the logical sequence of discussion.
Q: Why is top-posting bad?

CP.




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