Why do people detest top posting so much?

[Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bart Silverstrim

> Easier to hand out a brain belch. Too lazy to properly format 
> a message, 
> too properly to actually compose a message to others...top posting is 
> the older generation's equivalent to txtspeak. "easier" means 

LOL Bart.  Being an old timer ( newsgroup wise ), I thought I would
throw something in here.  I am waiting for some stuff to run so I have a
few cycles to waste.

Bottom-posting is actually a creation of us old fart newsgroup readers.
I never liked it and never will, but I do it to keep the posting police
happy, although just saying that will get me in hot water.  In a pure
email environment, which this clearly is not, top-posting is the rule.
In the corporate email world, most scan for important stuff from
important people then go through the rest, from oldest to newest, making
the top-post easier to read and follow.  I see, but a bare handful of
folks who do bottom-posting in emails.

> "I don't 
> have to trim the post or actually put thought into what I'm 
> trying to say."

Bottom-posters are just as bad.  ...two thousand lines of test... "Me
too!"  Ugh!

As the kids say, "I'm just saying".


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