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Subject: Re: [CAAN] Request for Hierarchical Category List
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 03:09:10 +0100
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Tom Bampton wrote:
> "BoD" <BoD@JRAF.org> wrote in message
> news:3e0e4eaf$0$26166$626a54ce@news.free.fr...
> > > Please don't top post.
> >
> > Why not ???
>
> Because it makes it harder to read the message. It reverses the
> natural flow of conversation, requiring you to read the end before
> the beginning.

You don't want to read the beginning (you already have read it in the
previous message in the thread).
But you want to include it because it may be of importance as reference
material. But less important than the new content, thus behind it.

> It also pisses off the majority of people reading
> Usenet.

Prove it :)


Anyway, I guess this conversation has already taken place many times, in
many other places. My point is: don't tell people how they should format
their text because this is really a question of taste, and subjective, and
there is no "best" way.

BoD