Mouth Breathing Top Posters

Maple Tree wrote:

>Up yours

Please don't top post.

Here are some references for those who are interested
in improving the quality of their posts to newsgroups:

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"When thou enter a city, abide by its customs." -The Talmud

Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings
http://www.xs4all.nl/%7ewijnands/nnq/nquote.html

How do I quote correctly in usenet?
http://www.netmeister.org/news/learn2quote2.html

Common Mistakes in Usenet Postings and How to Avoid Them
http://www.complang.tuwien.ac.at/anton/mail-news-errors.html#quoting

Bottom vs. top posting and quotation style on Usenet
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/usenet/brox.html

Why bottom-posting is better than top-posting
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html

+What do you mean "my reply is upside-down"?
http://www.i-hate-computers.demon.co.uk/quote.html

Put an end to Outlook Express's messy quotes with this automated fix!
http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

From (spit!) microsoft:

 "When including text from a previous message in the thread, 
  trim it down to include only text pertinent to your response.
  Your response  should appear below the quoted information."

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet?