Why do people detest top posting so much?

[M. Fioretti]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 11:19:45 AM -0500, Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:

> In a pure email environment, which this clearly is not, top-posting
> is the rule.

I think you are confusing "CLOSED pure email environment" (private or
in-office email) with "OPEN pure email environment" as any mailing
list is. And this other sentence:

> in the corporate email world, most scan for important stuff from
> important people then go through the rest, from oldest to newest,
> making the top-post easier to read and follow.

proves that my feeling was right. Email conversations in closed,
tightly related groups are an entirely different situation. The error
is to think that email behavior which makes sense with friends or
coworkers is still right when talking with "strangers" (including
everybody who scans the archives). See my other post on TRIMMING for a
detailed explanation.

	 Marco Fioretti
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