On Sun, Jul 15, 2012 at 8:43 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Which is better:
...
> 3. To comment intertextually so that comments sit next to
>      the parts of the previous message they are directly relevant to?
>
> I favour #3, because, like comments in code/scripting it is easy for a
> reader to see to what
> a comment refers.

It's not simply favored, but correct.  It's even in the RFCs.

Top-posting was largely unknown until the eternal september, at which
point we couldn't assimilate the newbies fast enough.

There are a couple of uncommon exceptions, such as "please review the
following", but outside of them, it's not a matter of preference, but
correct or incorrect.



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