Actually I do not think Google tells the real story. Most of the
people do not care about top-posting or bottom-posting. It
is just the few people (pre-dominantly old time internet users)
are more vocal and they speak out.

Outlook and outlook express are decent email clients. They are
also the de-facto standard in the corporate world. So people
will still top-post when they use Outlook or Outlook Express.

As for trimming the un-necessary part of an email, I totally agree.

To me bottom-posting and top-posting are the same. You either
scroll to the bottom for the original email or you scroll to the
bottom for the new information. Especially in the threaded
discussion list, it is actually better to do top-posting since
the context is there. You read the email by thread and you just
want to read the new information. It is more troublesome to
scroll to the bottom.

Regards,
Xiaofan

-----Original Message-----
From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu 
Sent: Friday, November 25, 2005 11:35 AM

You need to say no more.  I use Outlook 2K at work and understand how
difficult it is to bottom-post (and trim).  I hate Outlook, and that's
one of the big reasons.  It makes replying a big pain in general.  I
wish the mail admins would just enable IMAP in Exchange so I could use
a good mail program...

...

Here's the first result for a Google search for "bottom posting":
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html  Nearly all of the hits are
pro-bottom posting.  Now search for "Top Posting".  Almost all are
anti-top posting.  I'm not generally one for bandwagon-style
propoganda, but really, all those people probably aren't wrong. :)

--Danny
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