[time-nuts] Posting style Was: looking for gooddescription/generalized model for time adjustments

[Mike S]

At 07:55 PM 7/29/2009, WB6BNQ wrote...

>What, exactly, is the problem with top posting ?

Nothing, if you read books starting with the last chapter, working 
forward.

Top posters are a result of the lame default of many MUAs, including MS 
Outlook, which place the insertion point for a reply at the top. Other 
than the illogical flow, most top-posters are lazy (they just hit reply 
and start typing), and leave the entire quoted content in place, in 
most cases (I'd bet), not even realizing the full content of their 
email below their reply. Five levels of replies are not needed for 
context, especially on an email reflector, where all messages go to all 
participants.

By bottom posting (or better yet, inline), one is forced to go through 
the text one is including for context, which encourages trimming it to 
a reasonable amount.