Posted by (PeteCresswell) on 05/24/07 21:24

Per elrous0@pop.uky.edu:
>You know, I have been on Usenet since 1994 and this "top posting"
>criticism, and the insane level of vitriol attached to it, still
>puzzles me. Am I missing something? What the Hell difference does it
>make whether someone posts a response at the top or bottom of the text
>they're quoting? Unless they're responding to a post on a point-by-
>point basis, what difference does it make?

If you are missing something, I'm missing it too.

My take is that the prohibition is, in part, a carryover from
command-line readers - where the user could not browse a thread
easily.

Given some people's tendency to quote entire messages - where the
quoted text occupies my entire screen and then some - forcing me
to scroll down to see their one-line reply; I often *prefer* to
see people top-post.
--
PeteCresswell

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