Why do people detest top posting so much?

[Bart Silverstrim]

Odzangba K. Dake wrote:
> On Monday 23 February 2009 13:54:14 Bart Silverstrim wrote:
>> Odzangba K. Dake wrote:
>>> Ok, I just have to ask... what is so wrong with it. I admit that I prefer
>>> bottom posting because, well, it makes reading easier but quite a few
>>> people on this list (and on others) actively detest it and quite often
>>> snap at you if you bottom post. What's the deal here?
>> You can probably search in the archive for the words "top posting" or
>> "top-posting" and find articles outlining why.
>>
>> I'd get into it more but I just did...end of last week...with someone on
>> the list under a different heading, and if you ask questions like that
>> here you're going to get hit by people telling you to use the -chat or
>> -banter or whatever the non-tech list is, or you'll be hit with the FAQ
>> reference which tells you what you should do but I don't know if it
>> really delves into why.
> 
> Yeah, I probably should have put a bit more thought into it before I fired that 
> email off. Forgot about the "not for general discussions" part. Just do not 
> understand why top posting bothers people so much.

Do the search in the archives and you'll probably find why :-)