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

[Carl Karsten]

Derek Broughton wrote:
> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
> 
>> Derek Broughton wrote:
>>> Matthew Flaschen wrote:
>>>
>>>> By just... answering it.   Granted, I will usually include a brief quote
>>>> .  But in many cases this is just for the benefit of those with poor
>>>> email clients without automatic threading support.
>>> My email client has perfectly good threading support, and I don't have a
>>> clue what you're talking about.
>> I can see from my email client which email is replying to which. E.g. I
>> know your last email (sent 10:27 was in reply to my email sent 12:17).
>> Thus, I can go back and read the emails you're replying to even if you
>> don't quote it.
> 
> I could do that too.  Would I?  Not a chance.  I'm reading a few hundred
> emails a day on various support lists.  You get a few seconds to catch my
> attention. Apparently some people think that this attitude makes me a
> villain.  They're probably the same people who complain a few days later,
> because nobody responded to their problem.  I'm just open about why they
> don't get a response _from me_. 

Derek, I agree with you 100%.

For anyone who is still fighting this: regardless of the technical issues (what 
is possible with available software) and what is polite/rude, simple human 
behavior thing: we each do what we want.  If you need someone else's help, you 
better not make it hard for them.  In the end, if they don't want to help you, 
they wont.

Carl K