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

[Dan Farrell]

On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 22:12:47 -0400
Lorenzo Taylor <daxlinux at gmail.com> wrote:


> But if we're creating a standard based on natural conversation, how
> many conversations do you know that look something like this?
> 
> Hello.
> 
> You said "Hello."
> Hello. How are you?
> 
> You said I said "Hello." Then you said "Hello. How are you?
> I'm fine.
> ...
> Lorenzo

I agree.  Especially for short interactions, I prefer top posting,
because 

1) most clients are threads-aware
	(and most archives are, too)
2) the context of the response is usually anticipated from the previous
	thread

Bottom posting forces everyone to read each message twice, and more if
cutting isn't performed.  

Top posting is like a reply which sites it's context in a footnote,
rather than putting the supporting information before the pertinent
information.