top and bottom posting

[Jay Daniels]

On Wed, 2009-09-09 at 14:47 -0700, NoOp wrote:
> On 09/09/2009 01:59 PM, Jay Daniels wrote:
> > It seems the reason that people want you to bottom post is because most
> > people bottom post and if one person post at top it breaks the
> > question/answer methodology of the chicken and egg problem.
> > 
> > Now what if "everybody" top posted.  I think it would be much easier to
> > read assuming you are reading the list from a news reader or an emailer
> > that just marked read mail and not actually delete it until it's old.
> > Of course, trying to get everybody to do the same thing would still be a
> > problem.
> > 
> > If that was the case and everybody agreed, what would be wrong top
> > posting, if anything?
> 
> Perhaps this:
> http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette
> 
> 

Under proper quoting #3, it doesn't really give a reason or explain why.



jay