At 07:55 PM 7/29/2009, WB6BNQ wrote...
What, exactly, is the problem with top posting ?
Nothing, if you read books starting with the last chapter, working forward.
Top posters are a result of the lame default of many MUAs, including MS Outlook, which place the insertion point for a reply at the top. Other than the illogical flow, most top-posters are lazy (they just hit reply and start typing), and leave the entire quoted content in place, in most cases (I'd bet), not even realizing the full content of their email below their reply. Five levels of replies are not needed for context, especially on an email reflector, where all messages go to all participants.
By bottom posting (or better yet, inline), one is forced to go through the text one is including for context, which encourages trimming it to a reasonable amount.
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