On Sun, 27 Mar 2005 08:30:37 -0600, Mikus Grinbergs wrote:

>Non-top-posting forces the reader to SCROLL DOWN to reach the
>(new) text that is contributed by a message.  There are many
>in the internet community who consider scrolling down to be
>wasted time and effort.

With top-posting you still need to scroll down to get the context. 

>This is borne out in mailing lists run for type-1 personalities.

Please enlighten me - I have no idea what those are. 

>Almost without exception, messages are top-posted.  And with the
>right mail handling application, conversations in these lists are
>easy to follow -- just go from message to message in the thread.

There is a plethora of mail handling applications out there - old, new, ancient,
graphical, text-based - personally I would recommend aiming for the lowest 
common
denominator, not just the "right" ones.


/Per

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