OT: top-posting hatred [Was: Re: Update Manager in 9.04]

[Preston Kutzner]

On Wed, Apr 29, 2009 at 07:54:14PM +0200, Franz Waldmüller wrote:
> Btw: Most mailing list I am subscribed to favour plain text email rather 
> than html email.
> -> A lot of people don't have a high bandwidth connection.
> -> screen readers used by visual impaired users can handle plain text 
> better than html email
> -> This list is published in the web and search engines can handle plain 
> text better. If you want your answers to be helpful to users who search 
> the archive you may consider switching to plain text.

One other reason to not use HTML besides those mentioned above is that not everyone on this list (myself included) use, or always use a mail reader that supports HTML.  In particular, I'm currently using mutt, which doesn't support HTML.

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?