From: Steven T. Hatton (hattons_at_speakeasy.net)
Date: Sun Oct 13 2002 - 02:20:10 CEST
From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@speakeasy.net> Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 20:20:10 -0400 Message-Id: <200210122020.10553.hattons@speakeasy.net> Subject: [SLE] Top-posting is so Microsoftish
It has come time to state my position on top-posting. In the traditional
world of usenet and mailing list, long before the Ring Wraiths of Redmond had
spread their darkness over the Internet, it was considered common courtesy to
reply to a message by adding ones responses, either in-line, after the
comment to which a particular response was directed, or at the bottom of the
quoted text.
After the spread of darkness, many people who were unfamiliar with these long
honored rules of order, and who were either ignorant of the workings of their
mail and news clients, or had clients so technologically deficient they could
not adjust the default. These people began to violate these rules of order,
not out of malace, but out of ignorance. Indeed, ignorance *is* darkness.
It is now time to take a stand. Top-posting, that is, posting ones reply above
the quoted text, is a symbol of darkness. It represents evil. To knowingly
violate the traditional standard of internet decorum is to willingly partake
in the darkness. I therefore must declare that, heretofore, all who top-post
with full knowledge of the above recounted history will be declared 'Windoze
Users' and shall be shunned by all who honor the good and noble traditions
which created the Internet.
STH
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