Peanutjake wrote:
>
> Top posting is good, if you are following reading a thread. Then you don't have to scroll past all
> the old stuff to read the new.

This is probably true because you read a lot of articles posted by
inexperienced (or stupid) people who don't know how to trim their
replies

> If you start reading in the middle of a thread then you can scroll down and read all of the past
> messages to catchup.

It should be easy to catch up on the thread if the posting is properly
done but hardly anyone posting to usenet these days seems to care (or
doesn't know any better)