diff --git a/articles/complaining/topposting.html b/articles/complaining/topposting.html index 9c7be14..f67e4de 100644 --- a/articles/complaining/topposting.html +++ b/articles/complaining/topposting.html @@ -1,21 +1,13 @@ -
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 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?
-
-
-See the answer to the previous question. It explains everything.
- -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.
+At least Debian mailing lists and Ubuntu mailing lists forbid top-posting in their guidelines. In my opinion other mailing lists should do this too.
diff --git a/articles/complaining/topposting.html.md b/articles/complaining/topposting.html.md index 86c142d..e4991ba 100644 --- a/articles/complaining/topposting.html.md +++ b/articles/complaining/topposting.html.md @@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ This example from [Debian wiki](https://wiki.debian.org/FAQsFromDebianUser#What_ Why is it bad? -------------- -See the answer to the previous question. It explains everything. +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 -----