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Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? )
From: Jay Ashworth <jra () baylink com>
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:11:15 -0400 (EDT)
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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
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- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ), (continued)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Michael DeMan (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Mikael Abrahamsson (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) gord (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) gord (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: AnySuggestions as to anAlternative? ) Michael Painter (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) D'Arcy J.M. Cain (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) William Herrin (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) JC Dill (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 12)
- Re: Top-posting (was: Barracuda Networks is at it again: Any Suggestions as to anAlternative? ) Jay Ashworth (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Daniel Staal (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Jay Ashworth (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting bmanning (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Owen DeLong (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Richard Golodner (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Bryan Fields (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Bret Palsson (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Valdis . Kletnieks (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Owen DeLong (Apr 11)
- Re: Top-posting Dobbins, Roland (Apr 11)