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Re: Newcomer Help

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On Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:49:53 -0500 (EST), Walter Hughey
<wkhughey@gmail.com> declaimed the following:


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>I suppose what you mean by "top posting" is replying to an email by entering a reply at the top when according to your policies and procedures - a person should reply at the bottom of the email - like this. IF/WHEN I am on this site, I shall do my utmost best to change the way I and the people I normally work with to reply at the bottom, Assuming Gisle Vanem this is what you mean and what you want. 
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	Please refer to section 3 of http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt In
particular [Page 7] second "-" ("Remember that ..."), and seventh "-" ("If
you are sending ...")

	The only client application I know of that makes it almost impossible
to follow this recommendation is M$ Outlook.


	Outlook's Top Posting style reflects Business Snail Mail, in which the
quoted material acts as a photocopy attachment provided as a courtesy to
the recipient (who probably had sent the quoted material in the first
place, and should recall what the gist was). Mailing lists and Newsgroups
(and this particular forum is a gatewayed mailing list AND newsgroup) are
more like bulletin boards. Readers may not have seen the prior historical
posts, which means that a top-posted message offers no context to them
unless the first go to the bottom, and in essence, read from bottom up.
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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
    wlfraed@ix.netcom.com    HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/

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Re: Newcomer Help Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2014-02-11 20:50 -0500

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