Bottom posting (was Re: Torrents killing my internet connection)

[pavling]

On 24 May 2010 05:20,  <slowertraffickeepright at mail.com> wrote:
> <<<This is just a friendly  F.Y.I. note -- please be advised that
> etiquette (on this listserve, anyway) calls for responses to be at the
> bottom of the post; responses at the top of the post are frowned upon
> and discouraged. >>>
>
> I'll never understand that one! I'm like uniformity, but boy this
> bottom posting seems so... backwards! Well, when in Rome...

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


It's also polite/considerate to trim your posts - expecting people to
scroll through hundreds of lines of your log files to see if there's
any further comments isn't going to incline them to want to reply. You
said yourself "it's too big to attach", and yet you still did it - it
would be nicer to use a "paste bin" service [1] to make your posts
more legible. Then replying and including the same content again is
just infuriating (and top-posting encourages this behaviour, because
by top-posting you're not taking any time to considerately compose
your message, you just bang off a reply)

HTH you understand why top-posting is frowned on.


[1] http://pastie.org/   http://gist.github.com/  etc