Top Posting and Message Trimming

I'm afraid to comment for fear people will think I'm insisting on "do it this way". So... what follows is my personal opinion, and not really meant to be 'list policy'. ----------------- I personally dislike top posting. But there's something I dislike more - and that's bottom posting without trimming the reply appropriately. Otherwise it's way too much scrolling :) And it's not just me that dislikes top-posting. Top posting has been against published netiquette for years. However, as time has progressed people have glossed over some of the stuff they think is too prissy (which in my own opinion means they are being sloppy, and some may consider it rude). I dislike signatures, mainly because some claim corporate property or confidentiality which makes little sense. There are a few that have politically oriented signatures which has absolutely no place on the list (ok, that one is policy-ish ;) ). If it was trivial to do, I think I'd set the list to automatically remove all signatures but I don't believe that's at all possible, I think most footers are added as plain text and not as identifiable strippable stuff. Ah well. It's unfortunate that this topic causes people's dander to get up. I am not setting out any policies on this, so I don't expect any replies, rebuttals, or dead horse beating (at least with regards to trying to effect list policies) :) Jay