[D-community-offtopic] top posting

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Wed, 2013-11-20 at 21:39 -0500, Brad Alexander wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:59 PM, David Guntner <david at guntner.com>
> wrote:
>         Brad Alexander grabbed a keyboard and wrote:
>         
>         Top posting is even more disruptive when it's thrown in at the
>         top of an
>         existing conversation where people have been quoting and
>         adding their
>         comments among the quoted text.  It's just plain lazy and is
>         disrespectful of the other people in the conversation.
>         
>         
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> All right, I can understand and respect that.

Bottom posting and _some other rules_ based on common sense aren't
something freakish. Perhaps you notice that quoting your mail makes it
quasi unreadable. Imagine a howto, that comes into being by a _trimmed_
discussion. If you would have subscribed without ignoring the rules you
accepted by subscribing, you wouldn't ask.

> > > > > Question about step 1
> > > > Answer how to do step 1
> > > Question about step 2
> > Answer how to do step 2
> Question about step n
The discussion will continue here and at the end the subject ideally is
flagged with [solved].

I suspect if you would have searched the archives you would have found
hundreds of explanations, why there are those _rules_ you do ignore too.

Regards,
Ralf