Well....

1) a regular reader doesn't need the entire threat repeated
each time. It's irritating to see the same thing again.

2) If you have a threaded news reader, you know the thread anyway.


It's really only useful to someone who hasn't been following the thread.
Besides, there is a second problem. See below, ander I first include the line I was responding to.

Here are the previous postings, in "top-posting order" to this comment.


"Leon" writes:

Well actually I think that each post being answered to should be
considered as to how to answer. Trimming often means having to look
at another post to understand the response. Many think it is
impolite to not have everything right there in front of them.

I wrote:
ALWAYS trim posts. That's the polite thing to do.
It takes an extra 10 seconds to do this.
100,000 readers deserve 10 seconds of effort, right?

Leon writes:

IMHO if the message that you are replying to is long and drawn
out, top post it.

Now that I repeated the thread WITH trimming, in the top-posting form
that you prefer, and I find hard to follow, here is the second problem
with top posting.

3) it makes discussing something point by point very
difficult to follow.

If I wanted to respond to each of your points one at a time, there is
no place to put it, while keeping previous threads intact.

I can do this with bottom posting, and make it readable.

Top posting forces you to scroll through the other posts in the
opposite and natural order of reading, and in fact you have to jump
both up and down to follow the discussion of anything more than a
short response.


You can always DAGS on "top posting"

Sites that are anti-top-posting usually outnumber anti-bottom-posting
sites by 10 to 1, or more.

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