Top-posting considered harmful

[Tim May]

On Monday, August 6, 2001, at 09:41 AM, mmotyka at lsil.com wrote:

> I'm quite aware of the attack. It's not guaranteed successful yet. If
> you've paid attention to our lawyers recently it sounds like the battle
> is sporadic and the outcome mixed.
>
> Until the heavy hand wipes out remailers the fate of an individual
> message is interesting. So as of even date being able to assign IP
> addresses to persons and remailer nodes is not equivalent to
> compromising the communications.
>
> It's the best solution available today isn't it?
>
> Ray Dillinger wrote:
>>
(post by Ray elided)

I encourage people not to "top-post" (placing comments at the top of an 
included message).

It's becoming endemic on Usenet.


Not a slam against Mike, just trying to remind people of how bad 
top-posting can be.


--Tim May