Lindsay Haisley writes:

 > I never quite understood all the fuss about top posting.

Usenet over UUCP via 300 baud modems on backbone servers with 5MB
disks.[1]

 > The reason behind quoting in the first place is to provide context
 > for a reply, but some MUAs make it very difficult to not top post.

Friends don't let friends.... <wink />

Footnotes: 
[1]  I think I'm exaggerating here, but not by more than two orders of
magnitude.  It really did matter then.



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