{"id":107,"date":"2009-11-05T11:46:23","date_gmt":"2009-11-05T16:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/?p=107"},"modified":"2012-12-05T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T05:55:08","slug":"so-this-is-why-they-top-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/2009\/11\/05\/so-this-is-why-they-top-post\/","title":{"rendered":"So this is why they top-post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In newsgroups and many mailing lists top-posting (putting your reply above the text you&#8217;re replying to) is a big no-no. You&#8217;ll get flamed even if what you say is very useful, constructive, and nice. I&#8217;ve never quite understood the zealotry, but I figured: whatever, it sort of makes sense &#8211; someone says something, and <em>then<\/em> you reply to it.<\/p>\n<p>But in regular email I have noticed many, many people write their reply at the top of the message. Until recently I had no idea why.<\/p>\n<p>Last week I got a Blackberry. It&#8217;s a nice device, but it has a really small screen compared to a computer. When you open an email on a smartphone, you want to read what matters (the reply in most cases) right away. Scrolling to where the reply begins is painful and very time consuming.<\/p>\n<p>Hm, I nearly posted something educational rather than inflamatory on my blog.. Now if I can just find a way to write blog posts from my Blackberry I may actually post more than once per month. And don&#8217;t give me that retarded <em>Twitter<\/em> crap.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In newsgroups and many mailing lists top-posting (putting your reply above the text you&#8217;re replying to) is a big no-no. You&#8217;ll get flamed even if what you say is very useful, constructive, and nice. I&#8217;ve never quite understood the zealotry, but I figured: whatever, it sort of makes sense &#8211; someone says something, and then &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-andrew","4":"post-107","6":"format-standard","7":"category-safeforseneca","8":"category-uncategorized"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":109,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions\/109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/littlesvr.ca\/grumble\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}