In the earlier days of Usenet informal discussions where everyone was an equal encouraged bottom-posting. Until the mid-1990s, posts in a net.newcomers newsgroup insisted on interleaving replies. Usenet comp.lang hierarchy, especially comp.lang.c and comp.lang.c++ insisted on the same as of the 2010s. The alt hierarchy tolerated top-posting. Newer online participants, especially those with limited experience of Usenet, tend to be less sensitive to arguments about posting style.
Bottom-posting preserves the logical order of the replies and is consistent with the Western reading direction from top to bottom. The major argument against bottom-posting is that scrolling down through a post to find a reply is inconvenient, especially for short replies to long messages.
Yeah that was awesome Peter. Did you use Python by chance to reverse
those lines of text?
Personally top-down and non-trimming doesn't bother me, I relize that
in-line posting is ideal but I believe the convo is more important
than where the 0s and 1s are placed. Getting upset AND YELLING really
doesn't help and just makes me want to top-post more and of course
yell back. Though the best action instead of reacting is to just
ignore and walk away (chill William everything is going to be ok, deep
slow breaths). I think it's even worse when multi topics are merged
into one post.
If you trim totally without quoting it can be hard to know what it
being replyed to.
Be happy wlug mailing list is plain text (I'm looking at you ccanz grr)
Cheers,
William