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These may be voluntary rules, but here they are:

"If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just enough text of the original to give a context. This will make sure readers understand when they start to read your response."

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bottom posting makes you scroll through the old text again, and again. Every time you read another post, you have to scroll through the old text. Much easier to top post the answer, and scroll down if you can't remember (once in awhile). Rather than scrolling through every time.

Sociopaths top post.

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reply to this crap:

Proper editing and interleaving makes the most sense and is the preferred method. But anyone who wants to can easily prove how idiotic they can get by what and how they post.

Where the hell did you come from anyway you stupid pathetic old fool.

on Wednesday 01 August 2007 04:13 pm, someone posing as Stormin Mormon took a rock and etched into the cave:

*sigh*

As someone who has been posting to usenet under various nymns and socks since '89 or so...

...and as someone who generally receives - and responds to - upwards of 300 emails a day at work, here's my take.

Bottom posting is excellent for asynchronous newsgroups such as this where people like me check back every few hours or days and just want to be reminded to what the person writing about. Hence the tag.

I - like many others - do not thread my headers and wouldn't know the referring post if the author did not at least include a portion of the previous post(s) when replying.

Top posting is excellent for email, such as at work.

I currently am a manager over an IT group with a staff of roughly 60 supporting 1500 employees with about 800 PC's, 60 Servers and roughly 300 TB of online storage.

I get about 300 emails a day, many of which I handle on my small form factor blackberry. (I currently have an 8700c.) I just looked and noticed I've received and replied to 32 emails since coming home this afternoon.

I much prefer top posting in this situation because my emails are often back and forth and very rapid in response. Only when I'm replying in-line do I bottom post on emails. Even then I'll snip out the irrelevant or outdated material to keep the email body as small as possible.

I did try bottom posting for awhile but found it awkward and hard to ensure emails got sent correctly. Besides, we haven't upgraded from Windows to Linux yet, so we're still using the outdated Outlook 2003 clients.

HTH!

HAND!

Now back to our regular discussion of the coolest trucks in the world! This reminds me, I love the horn on my AV. I used it several times today to get the attention of idiots throwing their cigarrettes out the window. Normally I don't mind, but with only 2" of rain in the past 12 months, this could cause a major problem.

Proper editing and interleaving makes the most sense and is the preferred method. But anyone who wants to can easily prove how idiotic they can get by what and how they post.

From the RULES of 1995

Status of This Memo

This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited.

Nuff Said. Regards, JR

Sociopaths top post.

Sociopaths try to push their own deluded agendas even in a

4X4 Chevy truck newsgroup.

Amusing, but terribly sad.

Regards, JR