Hi Xiaofan,

Your original post asks the rhetorical question: "Should top-posting be
avoided?". I always avoid top-posting, except perhaps to just make a
point. The issue with top-posting is not top-posting per se, but that
top-posters often make explicit references to that which they wish to
reply. These references are almost always ambiguous and as a result make
the reply appear as though the author is a sloppy thinker. Now, I've seen
enough of your posts to learn that you're *not* a typical top-poster! So
as long as enough context is provided so that the reply is coherent, then
reasonable people will have no problem with top-posting.

Now, I could've shortened this whole paragraph by just writing:

"I agree with you, but most of the time I don't write my messages that way
because I mostly use Linux and also I think it makes it hard to
understand."

Ugh. Did I really just write that...

Scott

On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 11:00 +0800, Chen Xiao Fan wrote:

> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> 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.
>
> Luckily PIClist is dominated by top-posting. ;-)
> Even if I look at SDCC-user list, half of the posts
> are using top-posting style.
>
> Should the anti-top-posting sentiment just be history?
> Or is it still justified by some engineering/scientific
> reasoning?
>
> Regards,
> Xiaofan
>
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> --Danny, unhappy with this top-posting thing ;)
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