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[SpamCop-List] Re: Top posting works in a few places. Not here.

John Richards jr70 at blackhole.invalid
Sun Jun 12 21:25:10 EDT 2005


Cat wrote:
> 
> And if top posting is so bloody wonderful, then why aren't books written
> to read from the bottom of the page to the top of the page or with the
> last page being the beginning of the book with the first page being at
> the end of the book?

Wrong paradigm.
A newsgroup thread isn't anything like a one-author book. It is more 
like an email to which multiple correspondents have serially responded.
The overwhelming majority of that type of email I've seen had the
responses top-posted.

-- 
John Richards





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