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From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
Subject: Re: Top-posting
Of late I have started to get responses from people (not even the person who top-posted) saying that I should f*** off and that they would post however they wanted. Very hostile and even threatening.
I even manage to bottom post from my iPod. With cut and paste, it's really not hard, but I guess it's just beyond the capacities of some and somehow offensive to others.
Standard threaded (IE: not top-posted) replies have been the standard for technical mailing lists on the net since I first joined one. In 1983. Anyone who has a problem with it can, in short, go bugger off. Really. (And like you, Keith, because my current MUA, Zimbra, is moronic, I too have to rethread myself by hand, quite a lot of the time. And I do it, because -- like you -- I believe in The Commons) Cheers, -- jra