[ale] OT: top-posting

[Jeff Hubbs]

<top-posting because, well, I can...>

I'm perfectly fine with top-posting as well as 
interleaving...bottom-posting on a six-level-deep thread, though, is 
just hostile. 

The problem I perceive is that in those "deep thread" cases, you have to 
ascertain where the last posting begins.

As for the sales rep, how he arrives at his preference is one of those 
"unhealthy relationship with technology" cases.  IT companies are 
neither governments nor gods.  It is the very kind of thinking that 
drove me toward Free Software years ago and continues to motivate me in 
that direction to this day.  I never became a Stallman-level zealot, but 
I started out in an IT biosphere that, while not characterizable as 
"free," at least wasn't bound and determined to push me around, 
constrict me, paint me into corners, and give me progressively less and 
less value for my dollar. 




Christopher Fowler wrote:
> Okay,
>
> I want to open a can of worms :)
>
> We have a sales-rep that sent me this response today in regards to a 
> link I sent him that
> top-posting is "bad".
>
> /*The link you sent me is one opinion but I think top posting is the only way to go since the rest of the Microsoft world does it that way. And, if we like it or not, they are the top dog in the business world.   Sounds like The Butter Battle Book written by Dr. Seuss to me.*/
>
> The link I sent:
>
> http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>
> Comments? Flames? 
>
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