The worst thing about top-posting is that people who have the habit of it tend to just plonk their response at the beginning, leaving the rest whole and entire. This then gets kicked around the rest of the group, all of whom do the same thing.
As a result you get
Response 10
Response 9
Response 8
Response 7
Response 6
Response 5
Response 4 > Response 3 >> Response 2 >>> Response 1 >>>> Original Message
and emails 10s or 100s of KB heavy, all of which pile up in your inbox like a drawer full of socks and pullovers.
(This is encouraged by the MS mailer, which you have to positively fight with in order to put your reply anywhere else but the top, and to delete anything. People who find this happening by default readily assume that this is how it's supposed to be, so being good little people they do what they think is correct, and so it goes ... ).
By the way, am I top-posting or bottom-posting here?
Best wishes to all, Ted.
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