[OT] Top posting is a PITA [was : Prothon Prototypes vs Python Classes]

[Michael]

> Then why waste space and bandwidth and include it?

Because it provides contunity?

> If you need to refresh your memory on the discussion then back up the 
> thread and read the previous messages. A whole keypress in most readers.

Which is fine except that often threads go in mupltiple directions and 
have multiple people conversing such that without quoted text a reader 
may be unsure what and who was being responded to.

> And that's saying nothing of rendering the information that's given by 
> the line count of the posting useless. Many readers display the line 
> count with the subject, and that gives you a clue as to how 'heavy' 
> the posting is going to be. Just a short rebuttal, a 'me too', or a 
> dissertation in it's own right? It's impossible to tell when people 
> include the particular version of the King James' bible they're 
> commenting on.

Which is why it's helpful to clip your quoted material to what is needed 
to be informative and that is all. It might be a good feature if you 
made an option in your mail program not to count quoted lines. Should't 
be to hard to implement.