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<div>Chas wrote:</div>
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<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">This example is frequently used to argue the bottom-posting preference:<br><br>A: No.<br>Q: Should I include quotations after my reply?
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<div>Your example looks ridiculous, by design, but does not describe what is really occurring in a ongoing thread. As Paul indicated, the question has already been asked, so the top posting is a direct answer in a ongoing conversation...
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<div>As far as scrolling down a long post that is bottom posted for a one line reply, I don't find this a problem, however, within reasonable limits, and I really don't care if a post is top or bottom posted. It is a problem, though, when one post contains numerous other posts in a thread/conversation, posts that have already been read. They should be "chopped," as Chas described it.
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<div>A much more serious problem with list serve conduct, in my opinion, is when subject headings do not match content. Often a thread is started and the subject heading is kept constant when the content under discussion wanders off... This definitely wastes time when opening posts based on interest in a given subject/thread only to find content of a very different nature...
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<div>Ted Moffett</div></div>