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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by André Warnier <aw...@ice-sa.com> on 2012/01/30 13:45:53 UTC
Re: [OT] Reinstall with 302 error (and about top-posting)
Luciano (and others),
The following example is occasionally used in mailing lists to *mock* and *discourage*
top-posting:
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
On the other hand, inline-posting preserves the logical order of the replies and is
consistent with the Western reading direction from top to bottom.
Like this :
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
A: Top-posting.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
...
"Inline" posting is more work for the poster : you need to scroll down the message,
possibly remove the parts that are irrelevant, leave the parts to which you are answering,
and write your answer *below* the relevant part.
But it allows someone else to follow the conversation, which "top-posting" does not.
Use top-posting for your personal mail if you want, but /not/ in this forum. It is annoying.
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