At 22:42 -0500 on 14/11/02, Shannon wrote: >On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 01:45:52PM -0700, J Sand wrote: > >> I agree also in that it makes it more like a normal conversation when >> reading through the message. Most of the subjects we deal with can be >[snip] > >The main thing to me is that in-place quotation and response preserves >the chronological order of the comments. Top posting just makes a mess, >especially after about the third top-posted reply. > >I think a big clue is that almost no one who has been using things >like email lists and Usenet for >10 years does top posting. Experience >counts.
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