Just ask any proficient secretary/filing clerk whether he/she files the
newest letters on the top or the bottom of the pile?
JW²
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>>> A: Top posters
>>> Q: What is the most annoying trait found on Usenet?
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
>> >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>> >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email and usenet?
Peter A Forbes - 29 Feb 2008 07:26 GMT
>Just ask any proficient secretary/filing clerk whether he/she files the
>newest letters on the top or the bottom of the pile?
>JW²
>===
The Usenet convention is for bottom posting with unnecessary text/message
content snipped.
Top posting only came about because Outlook Distress did is a default IIRC, and
wasn't fixed for some years.
My 'secretary' files most stuff in the waste bin... :-))
Peter
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brightside S9 - 29 Feb 2008 08:59 GMT
>Just ask any proficient secretary/filing clerk whether he/she files the
>newest letters on the top or the bottom of the pile?
The reason for bottom posting is to ensure that text to speech
software, used by the partially sighted, reads out the posts in the
sequence they are written. This makes sense to the listener.

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Mark Rand - 29 Feb 2008 11:37 GMT
>Just ask any proficient secretary/filing clerk whether he/she files the
>newest letters on the top or the bottom of the pile?
>JW²
>===
She will file them the way that the office requires them to be filed. Idiot.
PLONK
Mark Rand
RTFM
Trevor Jones - 29 Feb 2008 13:45 GMT
I'll chip in a quid or two to get her to sort this out then.
Otherwise, not really concerned about whether it gets posted on top or
bottom.
Cheers
Trevor Jones
> Just ask any proficient secretary/filing clerk whether he/she files the
> newest letters on the top or the bottom of the pile?
> JW²
> ===
>>>A: Top posters
>>>Q: What is the most annoying trait found on Usenet?
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>> >> A: Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation.
>> >>> Q: Why is top posting annoying in email and usenet?
Sadly, [snip] went out of style.
Wes