Definitions
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- verb Internet, transitive To post (a reply to a message) above the
quoted original message (generally regarded as poornetiquette ). - verb Internet, intransitive To make a top-post.
- noun Internet A top-posted message.
- noun Internet An act of top-posting.
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Examples
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Symptom: Your correspondents use mail agents that routinely top-post, and they complain that they have to scroll down to read your replies.
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Symptom: Your correspondents use mail agents that routinely top-post, and they complain that they have to scroll down to read your replies.
KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] Annew 2010
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(3%) 3700 [Email] Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (3%) 7190 [Media player] music stutters while multi-tasking, especially browsing web
Planet Maemo 2010
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We must remember most people don't see any problem in reading or writing top-post replies.
Planeta Ubuntu Brasil Jonh Wendell 2010
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Symptom: Your correspondents use mail agents that routinely top-post, and they complain that they have to scroll down to read your replies.
KDE UserBase - Recent changes [en] Annew 2010
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Its default settings - use HTML mail; top-post - single-handedly destroyed electronic mail.
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After a few months of headaches with the web UI clunkiness, ridiculous mail filter limits (only 5? for real?), embarrassing quoting (forced to top-post!), and lack of IMAP support (not even available in the paid-for edition) I decided I had enough.
Fedora People 2009
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How nice? especially from the top-post in UMNO, you can say they are from Indian Muslim descendants, "mamak".
Planet Malaysia 2008
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JC, please do not top-post (no, I’m not a blog owner, just a regular reader that hates the practice).oren(Quote)
The Volokh Conspiracy » Andre Davis Confirmed to Fourth Circuit 2009
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(7%) 3700 Put signatures not on top in replies (thereby not forcing top-post) (+2 this week) (6%) 5480 undo/un-merge merged contacts (+3 this week) (4%) 1112 Recurrent alarms do not work reliably (-2 this week) (4%) 5824 Maximum number of pseudo terminals too low (4) (-2 this week) (3%) 1860 Won't pass through VPN
Planet Maemo 2009
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