Top Posting and Message Trimming

[Don Y]

Jules Richardson wrote:
> Don Y wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there an "accepted norm" for correspondence, here,
>> with respect to top posting and message trimming?
>>
>> Or, am I just being a grumpy olde farte?  :>
> 
> Funnily enough, your message landed after Jay's reply, so it was sort-of 
> like a top post :-P

Yes, I planned it that way!  The hard part was telepathically
getting Jay to type all that "Don said:..." stuff in ABOVE
his post before I sent mine!  ;-)

> I don't like top posting much for various reasons - but what really 
> irritates is when people top-post in an environment filled with 
> bottom-posters, as any kind of context gets seriously messed up (unless 
> you go around editing top-posted replies and converting them to 
> bottom-posted ones when replying to them)

I think top posting can possibly make sense if two people
are carrying on a (private, two party) discussion and can
remember the last thing they said to each other, etc.

But, for the most part, I think it is just laziness ("I don't
have time to scroll down 5 lines and insert my reply where
it belongs...")

> I suspect this list if filled with grumpy old farts, though ;)

<grumble>  <mumble>  *belch*  :>