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RFC 1855: Top-posting is considerably less efficient. If you need the...

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Comment by C Knight
Submitted on 1/7/2004
Related RFC: RFC 1855
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Top-posting is considerably less efficient. If you need the context of a long previous discussion, top-posting means scrolling down to read lines 90-100, then up to read lines 70-80, down to 80-89, then up to 55-70.... If you don't need the context, the format of the quotation is irrelevant.Further, top-posters don't even need to read what they're replying to. Think of letters: "Moving to your second point about XYZ, where you say 'ABC' is 'DEF', my thoughts are PQR..." Quoting in email works ideally as a quicker method of doing this.Time hasn't changed the fact that following selective quotes by relevant responses is the best way. People got into bad habits because of bad software and an assumption that top-posting was intentional.

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