[MlMt] Replies above or below

[Jason Davies]

On 26 Nov 2013, at 20:06, Rob McBroom wrote:

> I agree that a mixture of top-posted and bottom-posted replies quickly 
> becomes confusing.
>
>
> Is a thread where every reply is consistently top-posted any less 
> difficult to follow? :-)

FWIW, my experience is that editing the relevant bits and replying below 
confuses the hell out of most people, who wouldrather wade through a 
huge number of posts, complete with long signatures so that each message 
becomes an entire archive of the discussion. Unfortunately, it seems to 
work for most people, thus top-posting displaced bottom-posting [a 
phrase which sounds really, really bad in UK English]. The argument has 
raged for as long as I've done email, and I've mostlygiven up fighting 
it, not least because (getting OT) top-posting is an awful lot easier on 
an iPhone/iPad than the scrolling/editing thing.