----- Original Message ----- From: "Sameer D. Sahasrabuddhe" sameerds@it.iitb.ac.in To: "ILUG-Bom" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 9:38 AM Subject: [ILUG-BOM] top-posting
Is it just me, or do people here really don't know what "top-posting" is and why its frowned upon?
I think TopPosting is too common in emails in general. That is why it does not bother people. In general, top posting is avoided where you want to put a reply which is connected to a specific part of the message or a specific point on the message which you want to respond to. That enables you to ensure that the reader does not confuse your reply with an unwanted part of the message.
Top Posting, per se, (I believe) is not a bad idea, specially when the mail has only one point or topic. But ofcourse, in a mailing list, it would then be necessary to delete all un-necessary parts of the quoted text
Personally, I have no problems with top posting, in fact, I think it is a better way of replying in most cases.
Regards Saswata