A valid reason for top posting? (GPRS data costs)

[Michael Cohen]

I for one concurr with this. Anyway most mail clients nowadays (even mutt) sort
messages by thread, and in reality I already know what the bottom of the
message says because I just read the message above. To me bottom pasting is an
annoying habbit - even if Eric Raymond says not. It leads to a lot of
replication of the same message text.

</duck>
Michael.

On Sat, Sep 16, 2006 at 07:15:04AM +0930, Rod Whitby wrote:
> >>> Top-posting "This term is generally used pejoratively with the
> >>> implication that the offending person is a newbie, a Microsoft
> >>> addict (Microsoft mail tools produce a similar format by default),
> >>> or simply a common-and-garden-variety idiot." - Eric Raymond
> 
> Having just spent two weeks on business in France, with my only email
> link being GPRS (at 1c per Kb), there is one other reason that someone
> may prefer that others use top-posting:
> 
> If you set your email client to only download the first 250 bytes of
> each message (so you can tell whether you should pay the extra money to
> download the rest of the message), then top-posting is very attractive
> (especially when people bottom-post without editing the quoted text).
> 
> Eric Raymond, who comes from a country with flat-fee mobile data costs,
> probably hasn't encountered this other valid reason for someone (who is
> not a newbie, nor a Microsoft addict, nor an idiot) to prefer top-posting.
> 
> -- Rod
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