Re: [boost] What's wrong with top-posting?

Subject: Re: [boost] What's wrong with top-posting?
From: Andrey Semashev (andrey.semashev_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-22 16:31:36

On 22.03.2010 23:25, David Abrahams wrote:
> At Tue, 26 Jan 2010 10:09:43 -0800,
> Robert Ramey wrote:
>>
>> I thought I was familiar with the guidelines and never remembered this.
>>
>> I top-post all the time.   It seems much more natural to me when
>> it's not convenient to intersperse comments into the previous
>> message. Why I like top posting:
>>
>> a)  It means that I don't have to scroll to the bottom of a message
>> which is sometimes pretty long.
>> b) To me it is more natural to follow the style
>> of other communications (artilcle, books, etc) which make
>> their point in the main text and refer to footnotes, bibliographies,
>> etc at the end of the main text.
>
> c) You don't confuse or even *upset* (as I've discovered the hard way)
>     many people in the business world, where top-posting and
>     overquoting is the accepted standard.  Every message drags along
>     the entire thread history with it, and you keep a record of
>     everything by storing the final message. (yuck) It's a cultural
>     thing, and Boost fits into the open-source programmer weenie
>     culture much more than the business culture.

Personally, I _hate_ top-posting, because it doesn't allow me to answer 
the particular points in the opponent's message. Or put it another way, 
it requires me to reformat the whole message in order to keep it 
readable afterwards.