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On 04/09/2015 11:06 PM, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>
> (please don't top post, it's a lot of work to fix the mail before replying)
>
>> We lost the battle of top versus bottom posting twenty years ago. Move on.
> I kind of agree. The bad thing is that top-posting and not snipping
> the parts you are responding to, massively decreases the readibility
> and usefullness of email.
>
> You just read the first paragraph of an email and ignore all the
> rest. I do it, the person I'm responding to does it. Kind of like a
> lose-lose situation. Of course, the person that seeks help loses
> more.
My two cents is that each has it's place.  If I'm replying to an email 
in the most 'general'
way--something like "Ok, thanks."--I top post, but if replying to 
specific points, then I
always interleave or bottom post--doing anything else seems strange. 
What I myself
can't stand is the eternally incrementing email that you see more and 
more of.