Not everyone? Let's say MOST. I've been on 70+ listservs for over a decade and bottom-posters are extremely rare at best. If everyone else is posting a certain way consistently, why suddenly say they're wrong and demand posting the opposite way? I mean, what is right and wrong with the difference between top and bottom posting as if one is evil and the other good? In this case, majority rules. Trying to make people do something different on one list than on all the other lists is just ridiculous and disingenuous.

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On Fri, August 13, 2010 12:42 pm, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> Ed,
> Not everyone agrees with the bottom-post-for-technical approach, it's a
> personal preference more than anything. Technomage_Hawke is using reading
> tools that don't skip effectively (no visual interface). It's not a lack
> of GUI, it's a lack of any capability to see the text, and he's
> absolutely correct that viewing bottom-post in a screen reader or braille
> reader is excruciating, at best.
>
> If you must bottom post, then you should trim out all the history you
> refer to below (just as I did to your split posting below) as a simple
> courtesy to people who can't actually use their eyes to skim over it.
>
> I've generally found the following compromise to work reasonably well:
>
>
> 1) top post if it makes sense to do so, if people want the history they
> can keep reading. 2) post interlocutory if you're responding
> point-by-point to something; bracket your comments with --- so the
> visually impaired can tell more easily when the author changes. 3) Bottom
> post if it's preferred on a list or if someone requests it, but remove as
> much of the thread history as you can so screen readers and braille
> devices don't have to re-read the entire conversation with every email. 4)
> Use a thread-aware email client to make it easier to accept that others
> should make their own choices in this regard.
>
> Just my thoughts,
> ==Joseph++