On Dec 11, 2007 11:41 AM, Leif B. Kristensen <leif@solumslekt.org> wrote:
>
> It certainly isn't a crime. But it's a bit like thread hijacking in the
> sense that a well-formed inline posting is more likely to attract
> intelligent replies. I don't think that I'm the only one who tends to
> skip top posting replies on mailing lists.
You're certainly not. I can't tell you how many times I've carefully
replied to someone with inline quoting, only to get some top post
response. I then ask them politely not to top post, fix the format,
reply, and get another top post reponse.
At that point I just move on to the next thread.