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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.

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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articles/complaining/topposting: fix. 2012-05-06 20:48:47 +03:00			`Top-posting`
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			`What is top-posting?`
			`--------------------`

			`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?`
			`--------------`

articles/complaining/topposting: +1 example from Lubuntu mailing list. 2012-07-02 10:23:08 +03:00			`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.`
articles/complaining/topposting: fix. 2012-05-06 20:48:47 +03:00
			`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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