- Interleaving is great for a short exchange, but who-said-what gets lost very quickly.
- Bottom posting requires lots of trimming for readability and frustration from long scrolling times, which is frustrating for posters, particularly assuring that every comment left in is still correctly attributed.
- Top posting leaves the history for those that are late comers. If you're following the thread the whole way, you probably know what the poster's talking about and what they are replying to. If there's possible confusion, then the poster should clarify in the reply.
At least, that's how I see it, FWIW.
jg
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I usually, IIRC, extract the most relevant from a long quote and post between the extract and the long quote. If it's a long thread, by the time I post, I may top post or not even quote.
bc middle poster.
On 2011, Jan 27, , at 10:15, chuck britton wrote:
> Bottom posting (without trimming) will never catch on with a list such as this.
>
> (The Subject: sez it all for many of us.)
>
> (and I have difficulty believing that this is what you find
> most annoying ;-) )
>
>
> At 7:34 PM -0700 1/26/11, John Denker wrote:
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
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