Chen Xiao Fan(xiaofan@sg.pepperl-fuchs.com) is reported to have said:
> Actually I am using Outlook 2000 at work and it is
> very hard for me not to top-posting when using
> Outlook 2000 at work. At home I am using Gmail and
> I find it is still easier to top-post since they leave
> some blank lines before the quote of the original
> email.

Yes, it is easier to write but not so easy to read and understand what
in the OP you are replying to.
> 
> There are people strongly against top-posting. I think
> this is especially true among some Linux users who
> religiously believe that top-post is a bad thing.
> Some of them think bottom-post is also a bad thing.

This is the rule on the Debian-user list.  The majority do not top
post but people new to the list do it.  You might notice the replies
to those posts, most always, will include a hint Not to Top Post.

> However I can see that more and more people are using
> top-post and I like it more than other styles. To me
> it is just a personal preference and it largely
> depends on the Email client used.

I don't know the "rules" of piclist but as would like to associate
whatever I respond to to whatever the OP wrote, I find it easier to
comment below approaite part of the message.  (and remove the parts I
am not responding to)

> Luckily PIClist is dominated by top-posting. ;-)

As well as MUA's that either have not been configured correctly
to distingush between text of the OP and the response.  Or
MUA's that don't do threading automaticly or......


> Should the anti-top-posting sentiment just be history? 

If you can't see how bottom, or context posting helps the reader, then
yes.  

The same is true of top posting a one line reply to a long post
and including the complete thread in the reply.  That should be
history!

> Or is it still justified by some engineering/scientific
> reasoning?

I see no justification for top posting at all, but thats JMHO.

Wayne
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