>  Related to that, I like this sig someone uses:
>
> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?

That assumes though that you jump in half way through a thread, (or that you 
want to re-read the conversation every time you read a reply), because you 
get to see something like this with bottom-posting:

Q: What is the best thing on usenet and in e-mail?

> Q: What is the best thing on usenet and in e-mail?
A: Bottom-posting.

>> Q: What is the best thing on usenet and in e-mail?
> A: Bottom-posting.
Q: Why is it such a good thing?

>>> Q: What is the best thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>> A: Bottom-posting.
> Q: Why is it such a good thing?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.

With top-posting, you can just read the top (people start reading from the 
top usually) of every post to follow the conversation.

Seems I am in the minority of usenet users - although apparently the 
majority of people who use email.  Actually it would *really* annoy me if 
all the emails I got had their replies at the bottom rather than the top.

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