In article NaHLh.4391$742.3426@trndny07, Jack wrote:

Other than just pig-headed stubbornness, is there any reason why you
top-post?

I work in an environment where a very large amount of communication is done
via email between a very large number of people in a Fortune 500 company and
everyone top posts. It just seems right to us. I was not trying to be
difficult. I was only ignorant of your adamancy.

I would like to add that "topping" is fairly common practice in e-mails
in industry.

In Usenet, the culture varies from this somewhat. So I advise that in
Usenet that top-posting only be done above maybe 12-15 lines or less of
quoted material or have adequate indication early-on of having
top-posting, reasonably obvious in first-page-view in all popular
and decade-back-popular newsreaders including dating back to "tin" and
"slrn".

Meanwhile, I do find that most of those who bitch the most about
top-posting tend to be grasping at straws to fight their way upward from
deservedly lower positions in whatever "pecking order" that they want to
ascend within.

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- Don Klipstein )
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