I must admit I live in perpetual fear of forgetting to switch of html or rtf 
formatting (useful for work) and top posting.  I can understand the issue with 
the former but can see absolutely no reason why top posting is such a problem.  
In fact I'd far prefer it.  I get to my e-mail in batches and bottom posting 
means I've got to wade through stuff I've just read.  I totally agree with 
snipping extensively.

So that I can understand the almost religious fervour on this point could 
someone please explain to me why top posting is so hated!!

I can understand that if you are responding to multiple points in an e-mail 
then you should reply below each point snipping out what is irrelevant to your 
reply in the original e-mail.  If you're responding to an entire e-mail then 
the proper approach to my mind would to do as you would in business letters and 
start with a short paragraph explaining what you're doing (e.g. "In response to 
Fred's e-mail about AMD MP motherboards and interrupts, ...".  I guess most of 
us are too lazy to do this so we just leave the original text in the e-mail.  
If we're really lazy we don't snip the irrelevant stuff out.

Am I missing something totally?!   I'm just about to go and get my flak jacket 
and helmet in anticipation of the responses. :)

Regards,
George

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