On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 08:48:44 +0530, Suresh Ramasubramanian
<linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> said:
Top posting is something most of us do (and hell, in a work context it
is something I do all the time, it just works easier - especially when
the rest of the people in the thread all top post). And you can read
the entire reply right at the top instead of having to scroll down
through a lot of context.
Seen the mess a really long thread can get into, with quotes from
multiple different people? Try some long threads on usenet and see
what they look like, especially when some are using quotes, others
pipes, still others gnus/emacs' supercite mode name> for quotes ..
That prohibition basically started out back when everybody was on
string and tincan modem connections, slow uucp links etc. Not really
"applicable" now.