[LINK] Top posting is evil [was Re: vip-l: Electronic votiing]

[Adam Todd]

At 04:43 PM 16/11/2006, Danny Yee wrote:
>In some contexts I agree that top-posting is bad -- and certainly
>when posting to a list like link it's hard to imagine a case for it.
>But there are plenty of situations in which it makes perfect sense.
>
>If two people are effectively using email to do IM style communication
>-- e.g.  "want to do dinner at 8?" "yes" -- then putting the new
>material right at the top makes perfect sense, with a bit of quoted
>material following just in case of confusion.

What I don't understand is why email clients aren't smart enough to 
automatically delete user and mail list signatures, remove all 
"disclaimers" as they are meaningless on mail lists anyway, automatically 
jump to display the end of the message or the section where the last date 
and time was relevant, provided there is no insert quoting.

Oh - of course.  Human interaction!  If we had the above, then our 
computers could write the mail for us and we'd just watch!