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Because they are all descended from UseNet, eventually.
by barry-cotter 5y ago
Because they are all descended from UseNet, eventually.
- neelc 5y ago+1 I feel a lot of the "ThinkPad running GNU/Linux" crowd I described were originally descended from the Usenet crowd, and the culture propagated. They are the Unix die-hards who refuse to use non-FOSS solutions at any cost, and actively are hostile to Microsoft (and maybe Apple/Google). Whereas the people used to top posting were trained that way because that's how Outlook worked.
- posguy 5y agoInline responses also enable addressing each subtopic individually, in an organized manner. Feels like threading for subtopics, and enables responding to specific sections of a prior email without having to make circuitous references.