Re: RFD for RISC OS community newsgroup (was: Re: RISC OS Community Ng name?)

In article <4d99b09455steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Steven Pampling
<steve.pampling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In article <a18377994d.ri48000239@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Liz
> <invalid@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I'm still totally unsuccessful with my usually sensible sister re.
> > top-posting as she was told to do it at a course provided by her
> > employers, and she assures me that everyone who emails her except for
> > me top-posts - and most of that is intra-university 'work' email.

> A perfect example of supposedly intelligent people not being capable of
> reading properly or understanding the content of instructions. The
> problem is most don't actually think, and many think they know better.

A lot of my work comes in by email and virtually all of it is top posted.
Some comes from office staff and some comes from the top of the tree.

As far as business is concerned, top posting is the norm.

I'm certainly not going to argue with them about how they should post,
just because their style is different to a handful of Acorn users.

Cheers,

Ray D

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