(urth) Threadtiquette

Dan'l Danehy-Oakes danldo at gmail.com
Fri Jan 7 12:57:36 PST 2011


On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 12:53 PM, David Stockhoff <dstockhoff at verizon.net> wrote:
> So then bottom-posting is qualitatively like whispering in a common meeting
> area? This seems equally problematic. In fact, that is exactly what I don't
> like about bottom-posting.

No; it's more like waiting your turn to speak.

What it _acutally_ is, though, is respecting your audience, by helping
them to see the context in which you are writing. Contrariwise,
wholesale top-posting is telling your audients that you do not care
whether they can glerk the context of your statements.

-- 
Dan'l Danehy-Oakes



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