[Asterisk-Users] Re: Top posting

[Patrick]

On Tue, 2004-11-16 at 00:10 -0500, Gregory Junker wrote:
[snip]
> You are kidding, right? "Properly trained"? By whose standards? What 
> international commerce committee on email standards published the 
> training regimen of which you speak?
[snip]

Have a look at RFC1855 (http://www.dtcc.edu/cs/rfc1855.html).

In the early days of the Internet, when the "rules of engagement" were
defined, top posting was deemed a bad & unwanted thing. Today many
people can't even write a proper letter (e.g. form, spelling) and if
it's a job application it usually ends up in the shredder. No second
chances. Once burned they will start to pay attention to adhere to the
"rules" of that particular form of communication. This is no different
from communicating on a mailing list with its own set of "rules". Except
that one does get a second chance(s) because usually one is informed
that non-html, properly trimmed bottom posting is the preferred way of
communicating on a ML (the gigantic/spam signatures are another topic).
The fact that Microsoft's mail products are braindead and make people
top post does not change anything about how communicating using this
medium was and is intended. If one prefers to top post then the obvious
option would be to join a bulleting board that afaik publishes new posts
on top: http://asterisk.xvoip.com/

Regards,
Patrick