Sounds very archaic, but if I read mails with dumb terminals (baud rate 2400 bps), and if I am not familiar with the subject of the thread, top posting would be painful.
It would especially be so to whoever has the honor of answering most of the questions on the list...
But other than that, most of the times, I find bottom posting more inefficient.
It feels like when I grade a student's report where the questions are mixed with answers and they are not quite visually separated. (On pine, they are not...) When I know what the question was, I come to wish that I had answers at the top, rather than having to page down several times to read the whole.
At the same time, sometimes a nicely matched q & a sorted in order saves me time... especially when I search old archives.
Regards, Ben K. Developer http://benix.tamu.edu
