<head><metaname="description"content="Insert description here"/><metaname="keywords"content="Insert,keywords,here"/><metaname="author"content="Mika Suomalainen"/><metacharset="UTF-8"/><linkrel="canonical"href="http://mkaysi.github.com/articles/complaining/topposting.html"><title>Top-posting in emails is annoying</title><linkrel="stylesheet"type="text/css"href="../../tyyli.css"/></head>
<h1id="top-posting"
>Top-posting</h1
><h2id="what-is-top-posting"
>What is top-posting?</h2
><p
>Top posting is replying before the text which you are replying to (and which is usually automatically quoted by your email client).</p
><p
>This example from <ahref="https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F"
>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.</p
><h2id="rules"
>Rules</h2
><p
>At least <ahref="http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct"
>Debian mailing lists</a
> and <ahref="http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists"
>Ubuntu mailing lists</a
> forbid top-posting in their guidelines. In my opinion other mailing lists should do this too.</p
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