Please avoid top-posting.
Why do people get so upset about this. Personally, I see nothing
wrong with it.
Partly because the reader has to scroll down to find out the context of
the reply. Its often a lot clearer to do as you did above and copy some
context of the original message and put your comment below. It becomes
important when you are using an email / newsgroup reader that doesn’t do
threading and messages are wildy out of order.
Rob
— Robert McGovern robertm@spellmanhv.co.uk wrote: > > > Please avoid
top-posting.
Why do people get so upset about this. Personally, I see nothing
wrong with it.
Well, sir. Have you ever tried reading HTML e-mails in Mutt (just one of
severak MUA’s for Linux?) I guess not, otherwise you’d be just as angry as
I am about people sending HTML e-mails.
E-mail is historically a text-only medium and should remain so. HTML
e-mail just add a shed load of junk at the end that is superfluous to the
content.
– Thomas Adam
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Are you using
set implicit_autoview=yes
?
HTML is still plain wrong but you won’t have such a hard time reading
spam now 
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 08:45:36PM +0900, Thomas Adam wrote:
— Robert McGovern robertm@spellmanhv.co.uk wrote: > > > Please avoid
top-posting.Why do people get so upset about this. Personally, I see nothing
wrong with it.Well, sir. Have you ever tried reading HTML e-mails in Mutt (just one of
severak MUA’s for Linux?) I guess not, otherwise you’d be just as angry as
I am about people sending HTML e-mails.
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