<html><head><style type="text/css"><!-- DIV {margin:0px;} --></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman,new york,times,serif;font-size:12pt"><div>After all the other posts came out about this subject, I thought I would stick my foot in my mouth and reply also.<br><br>Chris, read the link... Just about everything in it refers to Usenet news groups and not mailing lists!!<br><br>Just because something was preferred (required by the net cops) for newsgroups doesn't make it make it mandatory or even preferred in a mailing list.<br><br>Just my $0.02 worth. :-)<br><br>Randy<br></div><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><br><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><hr size="1"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">From:</span></b> Christopher Fowler <cfowler@outpostsentinel.com><br><b><span style="font-weight:
bold;">To:</span></b> ale@ale.org<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, January 7, 2009 10:56:47 AM<br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [ale] OT: top-posting<br></font><br>
Okay, <br>
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I want to open a can of worms :)<br>
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We have a sales-rep that sent me this response today in regards to a
link I sent him that<br>
top-posting is "bad".<br>
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<pre><i><b>The link you sent me is one opinion but I think top posting is the only way to go since the rest of the Microsoft world does it that way. And, if we like it or not, they are the top dog in the business world. Sounds like The Butter Battle Book written by Dr. Seuss to me.</b></i></pre>
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The link I sent:<br>
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<pre><a rel="nofollow" class="moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" href="http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html">http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html</a>
Comments? Flames?
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