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Old July 6th 07, 07:25 AM posted to rec.crafts.textiles.yarn
nickie{D}
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Default Please could you all Delete part of those LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOGletters

Hi David,

I was intrigued by this and asked friends on another newsgroup. The
best reason they came up with for the convention of bottom-posting was
the unreliability of usenet in terms of message propogation. It is
common to receive messages out of order, for instance, and then if the
message is top-posted and the message to which it is replying is not
there the person reading it has no context and it becomes meaningless.

There is no corresponding argument where mailing lists are concerned I
guess as they are more consistent (perhaps with the exception of yahoo
which can be a bit sporadic) and good at delivering messages in the
correct order.

nickie


David R. Sky wrote:
Funny how many posts this thread generated!!

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