On Sep 30, 2011, at 8:32 AM, Pedro Giffuni wrote:

> 
> 
> --- On Fri, 9/30/11, Ross Gardler <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...
>> At the risk of starting a flame-war I
>> am going to state that
>> top-posting is bad on publicly archived mailing lists. Can
>> we please
>> stop doing it?
>> 
> 
> This was discussed on the early postings in this list
> and a mentor said it was OK to top-post.
> 
> I don't like to top post but some mailers don't leave
> other options :(.

I actually prefer to top post. I've got everything organized by threads and I 
read them. I can generally sort it out. When the questions and answers are deep 
in the bottom and get deeper and deeper then I tend to tune out and move on. 
This tends to happen when some individuals feel that they need to answer 
questions from 5 places in the thread in 5 separate emails. This makes for a 
dense forest of email threads that only a lawyer or scholastic appreciates.

Also, consider that many are not native English language writers and lots of 
words may be discouraging.

I do appreciate the comparison of top posting answers before questions from 
Norbert.

A counter example -

A = B + C

The answer is first or on top. :-)

Regards,
Dave

> 
> Pedro. 

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