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Re: top-posting (was: posting oddities)
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Sun, 8 Jun 2003 00:31:01 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
> In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman wrote:
> > Would you prefer a button-clickie or something to override it and say,
> > "Yes, thank you, I know what I'm doing and I really did mean to put that
> > at the top"?
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> I'll do you even one better than that. Instead of moving your text to the
> bottom automatically and telling you that it has done this, it now simply tells
> you that you're going against netiquette by top-posting and it *suggests* that
> you move your reply to the bottom. It then gives you a "Fix it for me" button
> which you can use to move the text to the bottom automatically. But you don't
> have to click that button if you don't want to. But it's highly recommended
> that you do, for the love of all that good in the world.
Spiffatronic. Were I ever to have made a mistake by leaving such text topside, I
would of course click it to restore karmic balance...
but I don't make misteaks, so I'm not seeing that as a problem for me. :-)
>
> --Todd
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