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[Garrett Serack <garretts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My personal preference was always reply-at-end.

Then I got a job. 

With the onslaught of reply-at-top in the work-world, the wise man just nods his head, and acknowledges that you can't fix the behavior of the masses.

G

-----Original Message-----
From: Olaf van der Spek [mailto:olafvdspek@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 7:34 AM
To: Trevor Dennis
Cc: Garrett Serack; coapp-devel
Subject: Re: [Coapp-developers] Code release schedule

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 4:29 PM, Trevor Dennis <trevor@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Gmail, Thunderbird, etc, have top replying as well.  It's just more 
> natural to read the reply right away instead of scrolling down 
> hundreds of lines of message to get to a reply.
> I don't have a problem with HTML, just that some people like putting 
> pictures in their sig which cause every message to appear to have an 
> attachment on it.

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

Olaf