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Top-posting
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What is top-posting?
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Top posting is replying before the text which you are replying to (and which is usually automatically quoted by your email client).
This example from [Debian wiki ](https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F ) answers to both, this and next question.
A: Because it messes up the way you read
Q: Why is top-posting bad?
A: Writing your answer before the question
Q: What is top-posting?
Why is it bad?
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See the answer to the previous question.
It also makes harder to know what previous poster meant if he/she just said "+1" and other people have used different posting style and senders and replies are messed up. This happens often on Lubuntu mailing lists.
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Rules
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At least [Debian mailing lists ](http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct ) and [Ubuntu mailing lists ](http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists ) forbid top-posting in their guidelines. In my opinion other mailing lists should do this too.
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