Top-posting is for email systems where people continually join a thread and
there's no central archive to consult to see what has gone on before. It's
suitable for business correspondence.
Mailing lists and newsgroups are different: They have archives where new
list members can look to see the history of a thread. The only thing you
should quote in your reply is enough context to make it clear what in the
previous post you're replying to. Interleave your reply with the context
hints you quote. But chop out everything else. We've already read it. We
don't need another copy.
I filter mailing list messages to a seperate folder for each list and my
mail clients know how to thread a discussion into a tree structure. It
keeps my inbox uncluttered and I can easily understand the structure of a
converstation.
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