Topping
 

Hi, I'm a novice to this message board. What does &quot;topping&quot; mean?<BR>Thanks!

Previously posted - - on a nessage &quot;thread&quot; that someone just now topped for you - - but &quot;topped&quot; messages always drift apart from the question to which they are relevant.<BR><BR>================================= ===<BR><BR>Author: Rex ([email protected])<BR>Date: 10/16/2002, 12:41 pm<BR><BR>Message: The messages here are listed in reverse chronologic order, newest to oldest - - according to when they LAST had a message added to them - - not according to the date/time they were first posted.<BR><BR>So any addition of any new message, no matter how inconsequential, brings a message back up to the top, in the lefthand column,<BR><BR>topping refers to adding such a little message, to send a message (thread) back &quot;up to the top&quot;.<BR><BR>Best wishes,<BR><BR>Rex<BR>

Fudge

Topping for Ben...

To the top again, for Claudia, aka dogmother - - despite the fact that Fodors apparent doesn't want this topped - - and this thread itself may disappear itself, soon after I top it here and now.<BR><BR>

I don't hink I really finished ny though - - in fairness to Fodors, topping is increasing arcane, archaic and irrelevant to the forum (though I still do it for first-time-ever posters who may not know so readily how to find their own first time post).<BR><BR>What with the ability to find your own posts, and to cite other posts' URL's (am I right in thinking that these are still essentially undocumented?) - - Fodors would not be out of line thinking that the practice of topping deserves to die a natural death.<BR>

On antoher thread this morning, Xenos referred to this thread, correctly identifying it as one from which fodors has removed the abilito (easily) add additional messages.<BR><BR>But they never make it all that difficult.<BR><BR>http://www.fodors.com/forums/postrep...p;tid=34377330 does it.<BR><BR>I won't be surprised nor offended if they choose to remove this thread entirely.<BR><BR><BR>