On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 15:45 -0600, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 4/23/07, Ioannis Vranos <ivranos at 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 =================================================================== 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 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070424/be6cc3c0/attachment-0005.sig>