Top Posting and Message Trimming

Only if you don't care about people following what you're saying. It certainly does for me. I normally read top-down. To make sense out of a top-posted response, I have to either recognize the thread from the first few lines and remember enough context to figure out what it's in reply to (I can do this, sometimes, not reliably), or I have to read a few lines, page forward, try to figure out what they're responding to, page back, read until it no longer makes sense, page forward, try to figure out what's being responded to now, page back, etc. Far more often I simply trash top-posted replies as soon as I realize that's what they are. Anyone who can't be bothered to take the minimal effort to make the message comprehensible either isn't all that concerned about its being read anyway, or arrogant enough to think their time is worth more than mine; either way I see no reason to read. I wouldn't quite say I agree with you; while those annoy me too, they don't annoy me "far more" than top-posting - and in my experience (2) correlates almost perfectly with top-posting anyway. /~\ The ASCII der Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B