On 12/04/2010 02:21 PM, ehud.kaplan at gmail.com wrote: > What does top post mean? I use Thunderbird as a front end for gmail and > clicked on Reply-list. > EK > > On 12/4/2010 3:53 PM, Peter Linnell wrote: >> Hi,
Top posting is when you put your reply above the original text, as you did above. It's considered bad manners by most people because it means that you read everything in reverse chronological order. I'm guessing that Outlook and other Winderz email programs work that way because dead-tree files are always done that way and office workers are used to reading things backwards.
