On 8 Dec 2008, at 13:21, KH wrote:
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?
Could I possibly ask you to refrain from making replies to the list with this as the only contribution?
I refer also to your posts of 3 December 2008 09:09:59 GMT & 24 October 2008 08:48:20 BST.
I see now that on this occasion you've been sensible enough to add to the subject line, but my initial assumption is that this is a "bug" of some sort and that some idiot has replied with only their signature. It is clearly very irritating to have to scroll through a whole long message of unabridged quoted text, to find nothing relevant to the subject.
I personally think that you'll never win the war against top-posting. But then my personal grudge is against those who quote in the opposite fashion to those who preceded them in the thread - I find a flow of quoting that is interrupted FAR less legible than the 3 short message sections, all concise, clear and top-posted, that you replied to.
Stroller.
