Top-Posting

[Matthew S-H]

Because in personal e-mail you both should be following the 
conversation thoroughly.  Unless one of you has multiple-personality 
disorder, schizophrenia, or is just extremely pissed off at the other 
person and has been ignoring him/her, I doubt either of you will be 
coming into a conversation mid-way.  Plus, you shouldn't be forgetting 
what someone else might have said (there are usually not long wait 
periods between replies to personal e-mails).
Having responses at the top of messages can make things much easier, so 
there is no reason to go through the trouble of bottom-posting and 
snipping.

~Matt



On May 5, 2005, at 11:14 PM, Stephen R Laniel wrote:

> On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:06:32PM -0400, Matthew S-H wrote:
>> There is a very good reason for e-mail clients to place the cursor at
>> the top.  A vast quantity of e-mail is of a personal nature.
>> Top-posting is much better suited to conversations involving two 
>> people
>> than bottom posting is.  Although I feel top-posting is generally
>> better than bottom posting, I feel that top-posting is DEFINITELY
>> better than bottom-posting in personal e-mails.
>
> I've been avoiding this discussion, but the above answer
> fascinates me. Why does personal email entail a different
> sort of quoting than mailing-list mail?
>
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