<p dir="ltr">Thanks to changing methods of email and cheap storage, top posting now makes more sense.</p>
<p dir="ltr">When storage was very costly, i.e., pre-Internet days, bottom posting preserved the thread because the prior messages were deleted. </p>
<p dir="ltr">Now with cheap storage, all emails can be kept in thread order and top posting makes info retrieval easier.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The world has changed. See bottom for more.<br>
On Sep 28, 2014 9:16 AM, "Wolf Halton" <<a href="mailto:wolf.halton@gmail.com">wolf.halton@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Gmail wants you to top-post.<br>
> It is listening. One wouldn't want to make it angry.<br>
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> On Sat, Sep 27, 2014 at 3:41 PM, Ben Coleman <<a href="mailto:oloryn@benshome.net">oloryn@benshome.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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> > On 9/26/2014 17:20, Lightner, Jeff wrote:<br>
> > > Everyone knows only communists do bottom posting and don't trim<br>
> > messages. :p<br>
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> > Hogwash!<br>
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