top and bottom posting

[Siggy Brentrup]

On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 16:59 -0400, Jay Daniels wrote:

[snip]

> 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.

I tend to disagree - possibly because I'm used to post like this for
decades.

> If that was the case and everybody agreed, what would be wrong top
> posting, if anything?

Sorry if this has been said before, I'm just dropping into this
thread.  When top posting - which btw is quite usual in business
environments mails tend to accumulate wasting bandwidth by
retransmitting the same stuff over and over again.  If you want to
limit this effect you have to go versus the end of of a long message
cutting down outdated stuff.  Also, if used incorrectly, attachments
are retransmitted on every mail - another waste of resources.  IMHO
it's easier to keep old mails for reference than retransmitting them,
but I developed my email habits when both bandwidth and disk space
were extremely scarse resources and when it was not uncommon to send
the full X source code to an opponent in a flame war.

my 2¢
  Siggy
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