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Question: How is Top Posting on email bad Netiquette?

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LordRaiden

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Had someone chew me out about this today and I'm curious of something. How is top posting (posting your reply above the text of an email) bad netiquette?

I thought top posting was allowed when you wanted to keep the replied to message intact and include it at the bottom of your reply.
 
Had someone chew me out about this today and I'm curious of something. How is top posting (posting your reply above the text of an email) bad netiquette?
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This someone is an idiot.
 
that's from the old school train of thought probably... during BBS's the replies always went on the bottom.
 
I've top posted for soooo many years. I don't want to scroll through 800 pages to get to the reply.

Now HTML email should be worthy of a beating.....
 
I have never heard of this "rule" (or the term "top posting" ) and I've sent and received this kind of email from a decent number of companies over the years. So unless this person can point to some company policy I'd place them into the "bile spewing moron" category.

Actually to get a little back you might ask them nicely via email to provide you with links / references to this netiquette "so you can improve your email communication skills" 😀 :evil:
 
What client is this fossil using anyway that replies after the quoted text? I don't think I know of any that do by default. I'm not even sure that I've seen it as an option. 😀
 
i've only heard of top-posting for usernet. some of them get really upset if you top-post. well screw them! i don't have to use usenet.
 
Well, "supposidly" (and i say that in quotes) the proper netiquette way to reply is to cut the original message into segments and reply to each segment. Kinda like this.

>> blah, blah, my original email, blah, blah.

My reply, blah, blah, yes, blah, no, blah.

>> more blah, blah, blah.

My next reply, blah, blah. etc.

That's kind of what they're talking about. I normally only do that when I need to specifically answer each part of an email in detail. Otherwise I top post. For example, why would you bother doing the above if you're whole reply to a 3 paragraph email is "Yes, I'll get right on that."?? I think not. 🙂 And yes, I do believe they're a blithering idiot. They've proven that many times. But they've also been right before many times, hence why I asked.
 
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