Re: top post

Ravishankar S wrote:
"Jens Thoms Toerring" <jt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5iajh4F3n4qrtU1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

Ravishankar S <s.ravishankar@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

would any kind soul explain what is top posting
....
It would be top-posting if I would put my answer above your question
instead of below it. See also for example

http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
....
- Thanks Jens. Quite simple ha ! In other news groups, they didnt bother
about the way I posted..!

I suspect that the reason is three-fold:

1. This, and several other technically-oriented groups have a tradition going back to the early days of Usenet in which people were much more concerned over bandwidth and made a conscious effort to conserve it.

2. Techies pay more attention to this sort of detail than others.

3. It has become sort of a not-so-secret handshake which identifies those who know the etiquette.

I find it maddening to read digested mail lists on other topics in which someone replies, with the entire article to which they are replying at the bottom, then someone replies, in similar manner, to that message, etc. The result is that the messages get longer and longer while the original post is repeated _ad nauseum_, significantly making it harder to find original content.

Welcome to comp.lang.c.

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Thad
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