On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:45 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
On 4/23/07, Ioannis Vranos ivranos@freemail.gr wrote:
Pavel SRB wrote:
ps: sorry i did not get it with top posting
Well, it is something like this as I have understood during my Internet time. In general, in emails usually top posting is used, in newsgroups and discussion lists usually bottom posting is used. Of course, nothing is written in stone, so, in any case, do as locals do. :-)
I have only seen it in emails where Exchange/Outlook/AOL are used heavily. In the days before these abominations crawled forth from the bowels of Moria.. bottom posting was pretty normal.
Moria ... Jabberwocky ... WOW
My literary knowledge is being tested while I do all this work too ... thanks Smooge :D
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We actually recommend the "Interleaved text" method of quoting in the CentOS lists:
http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html
But ... certainly bottom posting is better than top posting on the CentOS lists:
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
We have links to those and other resources that pertain to the CentOS mailing lists on the CentOS website (to hopefully explain why we think that way):
http://www.centos.org/modules/tinycontent/index.php?id=16
Thanks, Johnny Hughes