"Top posting" is the practice of responding to an e-mail thread by putting your response at the top of the text you are quoting. It's standard practice in the corporate world...

On 7/15/14, 6:13 PM, Abhiram R wrote:
a) What is "top post"?Â

...but Unix/newsgroup ettiquette says that it's gauche to do this, because it presents an unacceptable cognitive burden to the user trying to catch the context of the thread by forcing them to read your reply first, before they read the preceding quoted comments.

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