Let us call it a hangover from the days of 9600 bps modems and slow uucp feeds.
—srs > On 25-May-2015, at 11:08 am, Lahar Appaiah <[email protected]> wrote: > > I find bottom posting a little .. dinosaur-ish. Corporate email has > effectively institutionalized top-posting, and the default now seems to be > to top-post for a general reply, and to reply inline for specific points. > I find it amusing how the bottom-posting brigade tries to claim that > top-posting is insensitive/ boorish/ uncultured/ etc. This is almost like > that other great concept, Mansplaining- something that is now thrown about > when you're convinced about your way being the only way (and is also used > more as a way to belittle others than for anything else).
