[OT] Why do people detest top posting so much?

[allen meyers]

On Wed, 2009-02-25 at 19:49 -0600, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> Lorenzo, you said that:
> > The only time quoting makes sense to 
> > me is if I am responding to multiple points in a previous post. Then
> > I do quote in the natural flow. I usually do this not when
> > specifically answering a question, but when responding to someone's
> > response. I put a very simple attribution, usually edited way down
> > from Thunderbird's rather lengthy line of cruft, followed by *only*
> > the specific point I respond to first, copied and pasted in from the
> > mail that I still have open, and then I quote *only* the relevant
> > part of the second point followed by my response, and soforth.
> 
> ...and I agree that this makes the most sense of any of the ways of
> responding that I have seen,  If one has a good command of the language
> then it is surely the most efficient way of response and I will endeavor
> to do so in my own responses in the future.
> That said, many here don't have a good command of English and do the
> best that they can.  Others may have English as a milk tongue and still
> not have a good command of it and may be excused for not being able to
> do the paraphrasing as we would like.  These must be forgiven and
> instructed in the proper techniques of snipping and posting only below
> the relevant parts.
> Thank you for injecting a new (to me) method of response!
> 
> Cybe R. Wizard
> -- 
> Nice computers don't go down.
> 	Larry Niven, Steven Barnes
> 		"The Barsoom Project"
Is it not ironic that when I finally see some substance in this boring
thread and decide to reply because of the comment "Thank you for
injecting a new (to me) method of response" I have not a clue what this
new method is because someone isolated a comment and responded.
You folks amaze me sometimes.
> 
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Allen Meyers
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