[LAU] Top Posting [Was: Linux compatible keybord controller?]

[Philipp Überbacher]

On Thu, 02 Jan 2014 15:45:03 +0000
Q <lists at quirq.net> wrote:

> My point was, there is nothing inherently polite/rude about either 
> posting style. However, bottom-posting IS very inconvenient to read.
> If trimming is so important and bottom-posting breaks without it, why
> quote ANYTHING at all.
> 
> After all, what's quoted in bottom-posting is incomplete chunks and
> no longer a full record of all that's gone before (which isn't an
> issue that top-posting by design has to have), which makes it even
> more inconvenient, because if you need context you have to flick
> backwards and forwards between different messages to get the full
> picture.
> 
> The arguments in favour of bottom-posting are illogical.

How would you respond to several distinct parts of a longish mail in
your top-posting style?

Regards,
Philipp