From: dagbrown@... (Dave Brown)
Date: 2003-09-18T00:50:51+09:00
Subject: [OT] Top posting considered harmful (was Re: HTML generation)

In article <3f684623$1@primark.com>,
Alan Davies  <NOSPAMcs96and@yahoo.co.ukNOSPAM> wrote:
: Gavin Sinclair wrote:
:  > Please avoid top-posting.
: Why do people get so upset about this. Personally, I see nothing
: wrong with it.

Top-posting disrupts the flow of discussion--it's like having a
conversation backwards.  Also, the response is not by the thing
you're responding to, so it's unclear what you're replying to.
Also, it encourages leaving the entire original article in place,
which wastes bandwidth (by which I mean, bandwidth in my brain;
Internet bandwidth cost is negligible).

--Dave