On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:12 AM, Damm, Christer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>
> > Basically, top posting is a bad habit (and unfortunately
> > promoted by GMail, which leads me to do it myself sometimes)
> > of posting a reply with the text that you're replying to
> > below the reply, so that one has to scroll to the bottom of
> > the mail to even get an idea of what you're responding to.
>
> Sorry, this isn't really related to Trac, but I'm seriously intrigued.
> There are people out there promoting putting responses on the *bottom*
> of the original email? Can someone point me to a site where they explain
> why that is? I'm just curious because I keep cursing emails where people
> make me scroll all the way to the bottom to see what they have to say. A
> reply is a reply, so the person receiving the reply should already know
> what was said in the original email (e.g., by using the Subject line).
> If the person feels they need a refresher, they are free to scroll down
> the page to previous information. Please help me out and enlighten me.
>
> Thanks a million,
>
> Christer
>


A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Axton Grams

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