On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Kevin Buettner wrote:

> With regard to top posting, there are some situations where it is
> perfectly appropriate, e.g, when you are forwarding something to
> someone and want to add a note of your own to the top.  IMO, it's
> also better to top post when you've added a few other people to the
> CC line and you want as much context as possible left intact.

You replied, but did not answer the question.  I too am dieing to know why
people are so adamant about top posting.  Is this a MUA issue?  I see
you're using Z-Mail, does this interfere with features of Z-Mail?  Am I
just one of the ignorant masses still using Pine and thus clueless?  
But that's OK, cluelessness seems to have become my middle name...

(FWIW, it took me a long time to go from Elm to Pine and I've been using
Pine much longer.  I've looked at Evolution and someday I'll deal with
it...)

Or is this just another religious war kind of thing?  (Could it be the
emacs weenies who hate top posting? ;-) )

> In particular, you can trim ... irrelevant ramblings.

If this were the case, very little would be posted to most mailing 
lists, including this reply.

> P.S. I apologize if my previous response seemed overly harsh.

I too apologize if this reply seems harsh.  I've noticed the subject of
top-posting coming up on other lists.  I'm amazed at the fervor people
have about this.

rna