top or bottom?

[Laurence Horn]

At 3:08 PM -0400 3/9/09, RonButters at AOL.COM wrote:
>Yes--apparently ADSL has thought of this and won't forward long posts. But
>why scroll at all? Chronological order is just as ordered if it is
>present-to-back as it is if it is back-to-front. Of course, things
>get mixed up when some
>post at the top and some at the bottom, but who is to say which is more

Perhaps we should change the subject line, which seems to pose a more
personal question than the one the messages actually relate to.

LH

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>In a message dated 3/9/09 2:14:34 PM, zwicky at STANFORD.EDU writes:
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>>  On Mar 9, 2009, at 11:06 AM, Ron Butters wrote:
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>>  > No, bottom-posting is evil. One has to scroll through all kinds of
>>  > crap that one already has seen in order to get to the comment. And
>>  > the comment most relevant to what one wants to post about is way at
>>  > the bottom.
>>
>>  yes, this is annoying if the poster reproduces the entire thread.
>>  another piece of posting etiquette is trimming your posting
>>  appropriately.
>>
>>  arnold
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