The usual objection to top posting is that it destroys the logical
flow of the conversation (and no doubt someone will post a
conversation in reverse order to illustrate the point). But I agree
with you, and for years read my email in reverse chronological order
precisely so that I could save time getting to the bottom line (at the
top), so to speak.
That said, this list's protocol requires inline or bottom posting
(which I've just violated for obvious reasons), as is the case on most
technical lists. Every one of the academic lists I have ever been on
prefers (based on practice, at least) top posting. Go figure.
Patrick
On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 6:31 PM, Brad Alexander <storm16@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm just curious why so many people get so upset about top posting. To my
> mind, as threads get longer, those keeping up with the thread would not want
> to scroll through messages that they have already read. I know that I don't.
> If they are commenting inline, that is fine, but I think that scrolling to
> the bottom of each and every message is more of a pain than if a respondent
> posts at the top of the message.
>
> And please forgive me for starting this.
>
> Thoughts?