[wellylug] "The quart-annual top-posting debate" was: Setting up a simple web server

[Oliver Lineham]

At 10:14 p.m. 9/08/2005, you wrote:
>Noted you top posted your reply ;-)

Intentionally, to perpetuate the joke.  And then went and quoted the wrong 
bit..

>The quotefix is fine - but look at it another way.
>In the corporate environment its not often that the end user gets to 
>choose their software. (Or the plugins or patches they run).  Thats where 
>they get to use Outlook.

I use QuoteFix at $bigEvilTelco.  There's no installation required, but I'm 
sure it is against IT policy. However I'd like to see one of the desktop 
nazis *try* to take it off me :o)

I take your point, however.

Top-posting drives me nuts, probably because no one ever did it on 
FidoNet.  But then FidoNet didn't have any spam, and the public echoes 
actually had a To: field, something which still makes sense to me and which 
mailing lists and usenet lack.

My point?  Nostalgia is a fine thing..  but the cat is out of the bag, and 
there's no way we'll rein this puppy back in now top-posting is embedded in 
the consciousness of the general public.

Best to move onto a battle we can win.

Oliver