> As a matter of curiosity, why is top posting considered bad form. I'm > using Thunderbird and when it views the mail, by default it is at the > top. With bottom posting, I have to scroll down to view the post.
Because we don't read from bottom up, we read from top down. For example, this comment by itself makes no sense (are we talking about how we read, etc.). The context of the previous post is needed to understand the context of the reply. Top posting means that you, as a reader, will need to scroll back and forth in order to understand what the context of the original post and the reply are. And things get even worse if you top post a reply that deals with part (but not all) of the original post; contextually it is sometimes difficult to determine which part of the original post the reply is intended for. This is why many of us will embed replies within the originally quoted text to ensure that the context of both the original post and the response are clear. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
