[LINK] Top posting is evil

[Adam Todd]

At 09:12 AM 17/11/2006, Bernard Robertson-Dunn wrote:
>Another posting etiquette question.

Isn't there an RFC about this?

>When I post a news item I sometimes add a comment of my own. I put this at 
>the top and surround with <brd></brd>

Yes you do.

>Am I being evil?

Gosh no!  I much prefer that!  I can see your points, note the relevance 
and then read the article.    You are usually pretty brief.

Some people embed the comments in the article or enclose comments in [] 
throughout the article and it's sometimes hard to see what is and is not 
commentary.

Then again, if you have a lot of comments, then it's probably an idea to 
embed them in a reply format.

If I have an extensive narrative to flow from an article I usually create a 
message, don't send it, but sit it in my outbox, forward it, cut it, paste 
it into a new message, delete the original and then I have a quoted original :)

If I only have a simple point or comment, I do what you do, which I did 
learn from you :)

>BTW, I have a problem with absolute statements like "top posting is evil". 
>I believe that a more appropriate statement is "I do not like top posting 
>[because...]" or "I think that top posting is a bad thing [because....]"

Yes well bottom feeders usually do complain about those at the top getting 
all the best bits :)