[Hampshire] Benefits of top-posting?

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Author: Dr Adam J Trickett
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To: Hants LUG
Subject: [Hampshire] Benefits of top-posting?
Hi,

I'm not trying to start a flame war and I don't want to know about
bottom or bottom/interleaved posting, but I'd like to know from
people what are the actual benefits if any of top posting.

Everyone at work top posts and it drives me mad trying to figure
out what they are saying on complex emails, but everyone also says
it's the norm, and question why I bottom post.

I can see the following:

* It's easy for short answers where you are answering to the subject
line, and there is pretty much no content.

* It's lazy/easy because it's the default behaviour of Lookout.

* Everyone else does it: it's the convention.

However I can't really see the point as it stands. The people who like
to top-post what is the benefit to you, why do you do it?

--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK

The animals are not as stupid as one thinks - they have neither
doctors nor lawyers.
    -- L Doquier