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<A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.>

I also might add that Bottom Posting also messes up the order in which 
people sequentially respond to a thread. aka: I've already read/seen 
that 50 times. Why am I being tortured with it yet again.

Summary: Post on the top when you expect that everyone will read a 
series of posts in order, not just the last post.
     Post at the bottom when you want a series of posts to generate a 
narrative in which only the last post is read.

On 10/15/2013 02:11 PM, DJ Delorie wrote:
> I really hate this example, because not everything in email is a
> question and answer format.  I think the only universally good thing
> to do is trim the referenced text to only the relevent parts, other
> than that, the format depends entirely on the content and how it
> relates to the referenced text.
>
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>


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