[Lazarus] Top-posting, was Re: reading FORTRAN-style input in Lazarus

Mark Morgan Lloyd markMLl.lazarus at telemetry.co.uk
Fri Aug 5 10:49:22 CEST 2011


David M. Lawrence wrote:
> I don't mean to offend, but I find top posting a more efficient way to 
> keep up with what's new in a conversation.  I understand old 
> Usenet-users prefer bottom-posting, but I've spent most of my life 
> working in a far older tradition of the news business.  In that 
> tradition it never pays to bury the lede.

With respect, formatting text in a way that doesn't conform to the 
expectation of its readers is a sure way of getting it ignored.

-- 
Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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