Apologies for the late reply.
On 3 Sep 2004, at 06:38, Jim C. wrote:
What exactly is top posting? I thought that was when someone responds to the very first message instead of the latest one.
I left this for others to answer, but noone referred to the authoritative source ;)
http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/top-post.html [1]
Note that both the previous responses to your question have violated etiquette by quoting the entirety of your original message, rather than quoting only the portions which are being answered. In that way, they provided excellent examples of top-posting and its evils, assuming you already knew the definition.
Regards Alex Satrapa
[1] CAUTION! The jargon file is addictive reading, partly because it's so informative and partly because it's so funny.
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