On 23/11/11 10:10, Norman Silverstone wrote: <snip>
I am not a computer nerd, just an 'old codger'. When I started to use email I was instructed to put my remarks after the lines upon which I was commenting and to snip out superfluous material...
Being an old codger, too, I agree with Norman. The key is to be considerate to your reader: edit the quote so there is just enough to provide context (which is true for interlaced replies, too, where required).
Top posting is then normally only necessary in enterprise e-mail where audit trails (=watching your back!) can be important. (And enterprises have so much server space that the ridiculous waste of storage caused by thousands of unedited, repetitious, 'House That Jack Built' e-mail chains doesn't matter, does it?)
Like someone else in this thread, I just don't bother reading unedited exchanges where I have to scroll down 2000 lines to get to a bottom-posted, single-sentence comment. It's not considerate, and if you can't be bothered to edit, at least save your readers a lot of trouble by top-posting!
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