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

[Florian Diesch]

Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> 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 can do that, too. But most likely I'll just go to the next message
instead.



   Florian
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