Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:50:19 -0400
From: "Gayle Surrette" <Gayle.Surrette at noaa.gov>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Quoting
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

Except I've been top posting for the last 35 years and when I started
top posting was the standard and in many places my last 10 jobs it
was required for internal email.  So I have to wonder where this
netiquette issue developed.

Gayle

Mike B. wrote:

>At 12:39 PM 4/21/05 -0400, Gayle Surrette wrote:
>
>>I would hope so.  Luckily, my email software allows me to
>>set top posting as a preference.  For the life of me I can't
>>figure out why anyone would bottom post unless they were
>>interspersing their answers throughout a long post.
>>
>
>Top posting is almost universally denigrated on the internet and has been
>for decades.  It's right up there with trimming posts as a part of
>netiquette.  Not doing it will help avoid threads like this one...
>
>-- Mike B.
>