I must say, this thread has to be one of the most well structured and easy to read in my whole experience of reading a public mailing list. If only all the posts here were of this quality the world would be a much better place.
That said, I too agree that top & bottom posting both have their own place, and as many have stated, mailing lists like this is a place for bottom.
Yes, I top post, but only because many of the people I communicate with through normal email (not mailing lists) are in corporate / government environments where MS Exchange & Outlook are used. I top-post purely for the fact that it creates less strain for them because their client can't be used to bottom post well.
I never thought anyone could get so defensive about their perspective about which form of posting is better. I learn to live with it, because everyone's different and I think the more people go on (rant?) about it, the less likely people are to conform.
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