Discounting consideration for some future researcher trying to use the nearly worthless Yahoo archives, I am still at a loss to understand why anybody prefers bottom posting on a reflector mailing list. I am often guilty of failing to "snip" previous material, but you will note that I have cut every single word below. Is anybody having a problem understanding this post is part of the thread on top vs. bottom posting? If the principle argument is that top posting destroys the flow of the conversation, then the poster is doing a poor job of expressing himself or herself. Further, I do not recall any conversations where everything is restated before new material is added; at most, in business correspondence or academic writing, small portions of previous work may be quoted, but that is the exception and not the rule. The internet is a funny place, and there are lots of mean spirited folks here with all sorts of ideas about how everyone should behave (an example being a poster getting on me about failing to control my word wrap, and I am not even sure what he meant).
I will shut up about this since it is off topic for this list, but I will reiterate my position theat while top posting may have drawbacks, it causes less difficulty than bottom posting in the real world.
