On Mar 10, 2011, at 6:42 PM, Dan Covill wrote:

> I'm with Al. I try to top-post, unless the context is really critical.

> Has top-posting been declared evil?

Dan, you're a young'un, so you probably don't remember the days before Outlook. :)

Besides making things hard to read, it encourages people to not trim their replies. Observe any thread dominated by top posters, and you'll see reams and reams of useless quoted garbage below any actual useful content.

Most people who top-post do so because they use an email client that defaults to that style. They click 'Reply', type a few words, and hit send. No thought is given to composition, much less trimming.

The ideal method of replying is inline comments, with trimming off all the non-relevant quoted text. That way you have sufficient context to understand what the writer is responding to, and are also able to read it in a much more conversational style.

-- Ed Leafe

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