"Kay Easton" wrote in message
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In article , gary davis
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Top posting does have some interesting advantages... especially if
you
read all the posts on a regular basis.

Depends how many posts you read! I need a prompt to remind me what
the
topic was about, and I find scrolling down to look at the previous
message than back up to look at the response just too tedious.

And even then, it is not always obvious that the response refers to.
The obvious place for a reply is in line, immediately below the point
being responded to, leaving a blank line above and below.

The latest post is right there and
you don't have to scroll through all the stuff you have already
read.

You don't with bottom postng. The idea is that you post each bit of
your
answer directly below the point you're replying to, and you snip
everything else.

That sometimes leads to lost context, but yes, vigorous snipping is by
and large preferable to threads which become intolerably long.

The ideal is that you have one screenful of new stuff interspersed
with
just a couple of lines of old stuff here and there, just enough to
let
people know what the question is.

And as for those people who repost an entire 4 screenfuls just to
add at
the end 'that was so good I've reposted it in full" !!!!!

Franz