> Please consider yourself supported!

Looking over the stats for all-time post quantities (well at 
least since shifting to GoogleGroups[1], though I suspect for the 
most part the trend holds) and some of the general helpfulness of 
those folks we have the following folks explicitly supporting 
inline bottom-posting:

  Tony Mecelynck
  John Beckett
  Dr. Chip
  Bram Moolenaar
  Bill Lam
  and myself

Several of the other big names on that top-posters list haven't 
explicitly expressed a preference in this thread, but show a long 
history of using the preferred inline bottom-posting:

  Ben Fritz
  Gary Johnson
  Andreas Politz

So the moral of the story is:

- if you want help from the most prolific & helpful authors on 
the list, your chances are much more likely if you adhere to the 
group conventions

- if you top-post and are lucky enough to get a reply, it will 
likely include an admonition to adhere to inline bottom-posting 
policies.  You might even get pointers on how to configure your 
mail client to be more helpful.  However, 
control[+shift]+[home/end] to navigate/manipulate large swaths of 
text isn't a terribly difficult.  Learn them; use them.  Or use a 
mailer into which you can integrate Vim.

- if you repeatedly top-post despite such admonitions, you may 
get plonked and find yourself without the assistance of core 
members of the group


Just my contribution of support to those who also encourage 
making the list more readable.

-tim


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