"RST Engineering" wrote in message
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No, Steve, it is not like .sdrawkcab gnitirw, it is the best way, other
than interspersed posting with spacings on your post, to get a message
across. Agreed, way back when the internet was pretty much gummint and
academia, some of the less enlightened of our brethren and sistren (or the
geeks who thought it kewl) decided that bottom posting was the way to go.
After all, that's how footnotes and bibliographies in "scholarly journals"
are done, so why not usenet too?

Because that's not how normal people respond to things. Normal people
want to see the new stuff first because they have already waded through
the prior postings. A line or two of your prior mesage at the end gets
the idea across. I wouldn't mind if that ONE SINGLE LINE of the prior
message were at the top, but that calls for a lot of self-discipline in
trimming that the vast majority of the denizens of usenet don't have.
Yours truly included. It is a hell of a lot easier to top post and then
quote one or two lines to give the idea of what is being responded to.


Bottom posting IS the way to go. That IS how normal people respond.