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<h1 id="top-posting">Top-posting</h1>
<h2 id="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 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F">Debian wiki</a> answers to both, this and next question.</p>
<pre><code>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?</code></pre>
<h2 id="why-is-it-bad">Why is it bad?</h2>
<p>See the answer to the previous question.</p>
<p>It also makes harder to know what previous poster meant if he/she just said &quot;+1&quot; and other people have used different posting style and senders and replies are messed up. This happens often on Lubuntu mailing lists.</p>
<h2 id="rules">Rules</h2>
<p>At least <a href="http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct">Debian mailing lists</a> and <a href="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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			`<h1 id="top-posting">Top-posting</h1>`
			`<h2 id="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 <a href="https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_is_top-posting_.28and_why_shouldn.27t_I_do_it.29.3F">Debian wiki</a> answers to both, this and next question.</p>`
			`<pre><code>A: Because it messes up the way you read`
articles/complaining/topposting: fix. 2012-05-06 20:48:47 +03:00			`Q: Why is top-posting bad?`
			`A: Writing your answer before the question`
articles/*: fix everything 2012-09-16 19:04:22 +03:00			`Q: What is top-posting?</code></pre>`
			`<h2 id="why-is-it-bad">Why is it bad?</h2>`
			`<p>See the answer to the previous question.</p>`
			`<p>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>`
			`<h2 id="rules">Rules</h2>`
			`<p>At least <a href="http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct">Debian mailing lists</a> and <a href="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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