Why do people detest top posting so much?

Mon Feb 23 14:34:28 UTC 2009

Thomas Wolf wrote:

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> I'm the guy Bart had that conversation with last week :-)<br>
> I like top-posting better and find it easier to read.  But I agree
> that the worst possible situation, in terms of readability, is to have a
> thread that mixes top- and bottom-posting.  So one should adopt the
> style preferred by the given mailing list - which is bottom-posting
> here.<br>

AND NO HTML!

It's telling that two of the three people in the thread, so far, who think
that top-posting makes sense, posted in html.
-- 
derek