"Richard Torrens" wrote in message
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In article ,
PCPaul wrote:
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:49:28 +0100, Rod wrote:

Roberts wrote:

Can someone explain to me about why not to top post?


You live longer if you don't. :-)

Convention - with good logical basis. If the thread were printed out,
what order would you do this in? Most people would expct page 1 to
start with the first post and progress through from there.

Also, see http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html


A: Because it makes a thread confusing to read.
Q: Why is top posting bad?

Top posting also discourages popple from reading the whole email. This can
cause huge problems when engaged in a technical discussion with a
customer, where many points have been raised.

Where no company with sense would use the email body to show the actual
changes to a technical document anyway.

This is what the change control and markup tools in word (and similar) are
for.
You change the specification, make sure the changes are marked and then
submit the document.

Why do you think M$ word is popular as an interchange medium rather than say
RTF or even OO?

Email is a hopeless tool for any sort of technical discussion and should be
used for what it is designed.. a delivery system for messages written in a
more useful format.


It also discourages people from snipping previous posts.
http://www.Torrens.org.uk/SitePhil/Netiquette.html Netiquette
Try also googling for "top post"

snipping what's that?