[TriLUG] Top posting links

[Paul D. Boyle]

Hi All,

There was an  exchange earlier today on this list about trimming context
and top posting.  I was slumming through the comp.lang.c newsgroup like
I always do over lunch, and came across a thread on top posting.  Here
is a response from that thread:

Brian Rodenborn wrote:
: BruceS wrote:
:  
: > I've seen statements in c.l.c. about top-posting being rude, but
: > can't find anything in the Welcome or FAQ about it, and other
: > groups don't seem to have any such rule. Am I missing part of
: > the Welcome or FAQ (wouldn't be the first time), or is this just
: > a personal preference? BTW, I get the logic of bottom-posting,
: > but then I get the logic of top-posting as well.
: 
: Many other groups, including most technical groups, abhor top-posting.
: Perhaps the most militant I've seen is alt.html, where they have
: collected a bunch of links on the subject.
: 
: how do I quote correctly in usenet?
: http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html
: the advantages of usenet's quoting conventions
: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/g.mccaughan/g/remarks/uquote.html
: why bottom-posting is better than top-posting
: http://fmf.fwn.rug.nl/~anton/topposting.html
: "rules" for posting to usenet:
: http://www.faqs.org/faqs/usenet/posting-rules/part1/
: Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet
: http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html
: zen and the art of the internet (usenet section)
: http://www.cs.indiana.edu/docproject/zen/zen-1.0_6.html
: What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
: http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/
: Posting help for newbies
: http://www.windfalls.net/ukrm/postinghelp.html
: Ken Robbins - Quoting on Usenet
: http://members.home.net/krobb7/quoting.html 
: 
: 
: Brian Rodenborn

Anyway, I hope someone finds these links informative.

Paul

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