[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.
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John Richards
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