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On Sep 30, 2014 8:08 AM, "Ted W" <<a href="mailto:ted-lists@xy0.org">ted-lists@xy0.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> On 09/28/14 09:28, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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>> Thanks to changing methods of email and cheap storage, top posting now<br>
>> makes more sense.<br>
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>> When storage was very costly, i.e., pre-Internet days, bottom posting<br>
>> preserved the thread because the prior messages were deleted.<br>
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>> Now with cheap storage, all emails can be kept in thread order and top<br>
>> posting makes info retrieval easier.<br>
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>> The world has changed. See bottom for more.<br>
>> On Sep 28, 2014 9:16 AM, "Wolf Halton" <<a href="mailto:wolf.halton@gmail.com">wolf.halton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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>>> Gmail wants you to top-post.<br>
>>> It is listening. One wouldn't want to make it angry.<br>
>>><br>
>>> Wolf Halton<br>
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> Except for those of us who run our own mail servers on a cheap VPS and are too cheap to pay for more storage... Forever stuck in the world of "delete messages from server" ;)<br>
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<p dir="ltr">+1<br>
:-)<br>
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