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[Sandy Harris]

On 8/1/10, Billie Walsh <bilwalsh at swbell.net> wrote:

>  > ...  IMHO, top posting is a symptom of cluelessness.

Yes! And it always has been.

> >  Since I want my cluelessness to be judged by what I say, I
> >  don't top post.  AND, if I see someone who I think might
> >  benefit from the tip, I will suggest the same to them.

Good idea. Too bad some are clueless enough to imagine
that arguing about it does anything other than waste time.

>  Well, if opinions are allowed I'll voice mine.
>
>  Bottom posting is the one of the two stupidist things in e-mail. If I'm
>  following a thread having to scroll down through all the previous posts
>  is a royal pain in the posterior.

That is because someone failed to trim the post. All you should
see is enough quoted material to provide context plus the
response.

Failure to trim can happen with either top or bottom posting,
but in my experience it is more common with top-posting.