From: Mark Wilden <mark@...>
Date: 2008-05-28T06:23:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Top-posting

On May 27, 2008, at 12:19 PM, Todd Benson wrote:

> I'll mention one more thing, too, about the topic -- and someone may
> have beat me to it -- is that my eyes work quite a bit faster than my
> fingers do (recognizing paragraphs that I've seen before with a single
> glance, for example), so repetition of previous statements doesn't
> really bother me.  It is more important to me with how it's laid out,
> so I can quickly figure out how deep in the thread I am, and who is
> responding to who.

The way I read email is with the mouse. I'll click on each subject  
line in the list, and then usually click delete very soon after.  
Bottom-quoting means I often have to add another step - to scroll down  
to read the actual message. I don't understand why many people prefer  
that, but they clearly do.

///ark