TopPosting !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Mario Vukelic]

On Tue, 2008-04-15 at 12:28 -0500, Steve T wrote:
> A person's personal preference regarding top/bottom posting is
> completely subjective.

Only if you consider the direction of time subjective, too :)
The canonical example has been posted frequently:

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


In any case, you conveniently didn't quote the link to the Ubuntu
mailing list etiquette that specifically asks to bottom post, quote, and
trim the quotes. At this point I don't see how one can insist on it
being a personal preference, unless one deliberately wants to throw
courtesy out of the window.