Lpc2000

I tend start with a "top-post" in this forum because of how the
"simple" view works on the web interface.

--- In lpc2000@yahoogroups.com, Tom Walsh <tom@...> wrote:

> ... top-posting is out-of-context replying and 
> difficult to figure out what you are specifically responding to.

That is what I thought top-posting meant.  I know many who consider
text at the top as top-posting.

Bear in mind netiquette came about from the USENET days when postings
were through vanilla SMTP clients that deal only with plain text.

Many clients today have fancy "web view" capability and handle
proprietary formatted contents that make cutting original text
somewhat cumbersome.

I often receive responses where the respondent breaks original text
into parts, and responds to each part by way of annotation style
comments (as I like it to be) except ... respondent's email client
does not distinguish original text from the annotation!

Jaya