That is the oft-quoted, idiotic type of example. The reality is that if we follow the thread, we know the question, we only want to see the answer, not wade through a morass of stuff we have already seen. If we haven't seen it, guess what, we can go and read it.
"funfly3" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > David wrote: >> I am not going to join the argument, > > except you have > except to say that as you can see, I >> top post. In outlook express, you can see the messages as a thread, so >> you read the initial message, come to the reply and you read the response >> without having to scroll. Bottom posting would be fine if the previous >> message that promted the response was removed from the server, but it >> isn't, therefore, top posting is very logical. >> > only of you top post its logical as we all don't top post its not > > > A bird > > > Q name an animal that fly's > > see top posting is illogical > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list