From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2006-09-02T06:05:13+09:00
Subject: Re: Off topic: What is "top posting" ??

It's interesting that you should mention blind correspondents, because
one of them once told me he *preferred* top posting. He put it this way:
"I know what I said, I don't want to hear the whole story over again to
find out what *you* added." Of course, this assumes that people follow
the traditional Usenet etiquette of deleting all of the thread except
the part you are responding to.

Chad Perrin wrote:
> Speak for yourself.  I assume that people should be accomodated in the
> most reasonable manner possible.  Ultimately, the most potentially put
> out by top-posting are the blind, who (using screen readers) would end
> up with an unnavigable mass of out-of-order text.

It's interesting that you should mention blind correspondents, because
one of them once told me he *preferred* top posting. He put it this way:
"I know what I said, I don't want to hear the whole story over again to
find out what *you* added." Of course, this assumes that people follow
the traditional Usenet etiquette of deleting all of the thread except
the part you are responding to.