[ale] Changing Linux

[Ted W]

On 09/28/14 09:28, Jim Kinney wrote:
> Thanks to changing methods of email and cheap storage, top posting now
> makes more sense.
>
> When storage was very costly, i.e., pre-Internet days, bottom posting
> preserved the thread because the prior messages were deleted.
>
> Now with cheap storage, all emails can be kept in thread order and top
> posting makes info retrieval easier.
>
> The world has changed. See bottom for more.
> On Sep 28, 2014 9:16 AM, "Wolf Halton" <wolf.halton at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Gmail wants you to top-post.
>> It is listening.  One wouldn't want to make it angry.
>>
>> Wolf Halton
>>


Except for those of us who run our own mail servers on a cheap VPS and 
are too cheap to pay for more storage... Forever stuck in the world of 
"delete messages from server"  ;)

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Ted W. <ted at xy0.org>