Also, to be fair, the message that I originally responded to did say "Please
refrain from top posting", not specifically "Don't top post". The originator
of the message was fairly civil about this, but at the time that I
responded, I went a little overboard with my response.

"John Busby" > wrote in message
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> Not very wrong apparently. Of all the links you posted, I found only one
> that specifically stated that bottom posting was the "correct" form, and
> one of the links stated that bottom posting wasn't the answer either. Most
> of the references simply said that top posting was considered bad net
> etiquette, and went on to explain why the author thought that it was. One
> of the arguments that I have often seen against top posting is that it
> gets the message out of sequence, and confuses the reader. When I have
> been following a message thread though, I am familiar with what has been
> said, and I prefer to have the response in the next message shown at the
> top. Everyone has their own preferences. In other words, you can get about
> any answer to this that you want, depending upon which references you want
> to cite. No one in these news groups will stop others from top posting if
> they choose to, unless it is a moderated group where someone has actual
> control over the newsgroup messages.
> I have been following the messages in this newsgroup for a long time now,
> and have enjoyed reading a lot of the responses, and have learned a lot
> about barbecue, but when someone decides to play NetCop and tries to
> control the way that people choose to participate in a newsgroup, i.e.
> "Don't top post", I sometimes choose to add my 2 cents worth in top posted
> form, just on general principles.
>
>
>
> "Dave Bugg" > wrote in message
> ...
>> John Busby wrote:
>>> Well feel free to break out the kill file then. There is no "correct"
>>> method of replying to a post. It is up to the individual user's
>>> preference.
>>
>> Oh, how wrong can one be?:
>> http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
>> http://www.river.com/users/share/etiquette/
>> http://ursine.ca/wiki/index.php?title=Top_Posting
>> http://people.cornell.edu/pages/kk28...uidelines.html
>> http://www.dickalba.demon.co.uk/usen.../faq_topp.html
>> http://jibbering.com/faq/faq_notes/pots1.html
>> http://www.answers.com/topic/top-posting
>> --
>> Dave
>> www.davebbq.com
>>
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