On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 07:46 -0800, Jerry Franz wrote: > On 12/08/2010 07:03 AM, Scott Robbins wrote: > > Honestly, I had no one in mind. > > I remember in an effort to get a life outside tech, I joined a mailing > > list for something else. I hadn't realized how most people top post, > > don't trim, and still use aol. > It really is worth noting that the bottom-post convention used on many > technical lists *is not* how most of the planet now does email or other > electronic communications. The rage we see here over it is really just > another technical 'religious war' by people who don't tolerate change > well. In reality, it doesn't matter much for most things either way and > far more harm is done by the howling over it than using either > convention actually causes. Ok, well then you call be religiously intolerant. I care; for what I sincerely believe to be very *practical* reasons. Top-Post messages are often quite confusing; they often respond to one point in a longer message - and you don't have any idea which one. And the don't encourage trimming which makes reading a message resulting from a thread really bad. I use e-mail, especially archives, to research problems and issues - so readability matters. Trust me [which of course you won't seeing as you already dismissed my point of view] but it *REALLY MATTERS* when going back and reading e-mail how the poster(s) managed the message's contents.