[Info-vax] Open Source on OpenVMS - A Progress Report

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In article <JNadnZZ2nabGPkDXnZ2dnUVZ_h2dnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>Bart.Zorn at gmail.com wrote:
>> On Oct 19, 3:29 pm, BillPedersen <peder... at ccsscorp.com> wrote:
>>> On Oct 19, 8:28 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>>> remove CLOTHES to reply) wrote:
>>>
>>   [ S n i p . . . ]
>>>>    o  Don't top-post
>>> Sorry, did not realize this was happening, although I can obviously
>>> see the issue.  No one likes having to scroll to the bottom for a
>>> simple comment.
>> 
>> Now I am lost. Can somebody please explain what "top-post" is?
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Bart
>> 
>
>"Top Posting" means placing your text BEFORE the text you are responding 
>to.  Most people do not "top post" and do not like it when others do so.
>
>It's not quite as bad as farting in church!

Why? Was that in one of the 5 of 15 commandments tablets that Moses dropped?

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