On Wed, 07 Jan 2015 02:21:42 -0800, Cathal Garvey <cathalgarvey@cathalgarvey.me> wrote:
nevertheless find scrolling down to find replies inline irksome.
This is about the only point on this issues where I can agree with Cathal. Bottom posting makes more sense to me but scrolling through pages of mangled cascading-80-character-wrapped-indented-reply garbage just to get to 'the meat' annoys me just about as much as top posting does. The scourge of mailing list slobs who are too lazy to trim their replies cuts across both camps. If I had to choose between a world where everyone mercilessly and neatly trimmed their mailing replies while posting both top and bottom, vs one where everyone bottom posted all the time but never trimmed the crap, I think I would prefer the former.