{"id":3498,"date":"2008-02-15T18:28:42","date_gmt":"2008-02-15T23:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/once-mighty-edifices-crumble-and-fall\/"},"modified":"2008-02-15T18:28:42","modified_gmt":"2008-02-15T23:28:42","slug":"once-mighty-edifices-crumble-and-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/15\/once-mighty-edifices-crumble-and-fall\/","title":{"rendered":"once mighty edifices crumble and fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre id=\"line1\">Friends:\r\n\r\nAfter discussion with the other list managers, we've decided to end\r\nour policy of asking that list members not \"<a href=\"http:\/\/mailformat.dan.info\/quoting\/top-posting.html\">top post<\/a>\" their replies.\r\nThat's the default behavior of most email clients, and just reminding\r\npeople of our recommendation to \"bottom post\" or interleave your\r\nreplies has become more trouble than its worth. From this point\r\nforward, top posting is no longer an issue.\r\n\r\nDan Knight, list owner\r\npublisher, <a href=\"http:\/\/LowEndMac.com\">LowEndMac.com<\/a><\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friends: After discussion with the other list managers, we&#8217;ve decided to end our policy of asking that list members not &#8220;top post&#8221; their replies. That&#8217;s the default behavior of most email clients, and just reminding people of our recommendation to &#8220;bottom post&#8221; or interleave your replies has become more trouble than its worth. From this [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[761,1140],"class_list":["post-3498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-suck","tag-email","tag-etiquette"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-Uq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}