[arch-general] top posting

[Denis Kobozev]

The only advantage of top posting I can think of is that it enables
you to forward the entire chain of emails to a new person with one
click. You could, of course, bottom post and keep the entire chain in
each email, but it's probably even worse than top posting, since you
would have to scroll through the whole mess each time just to see what
another person said.

So in office environment, top posting is probably preferable to bottom
posting. Although I do switch to bottom posting even when replying to
office-style communication when I get a big list of unrelated
questions.

Bottom posting shows its downside only when you recently joined a
mailing list, for example - you start receiving emails from threads
that have been going for a long time and you have no idea what people
are discussing. But if you're really interested, you can always use
the archive.

Denis.