There used to be a big debate about where the reply should be placed when replying to an email. Bottom-posting means the reply is placed below what it's replyi

There used to be a big debate about where the reply should be placed when replying to an email. Bottom-posting means the reply is placed below what it's replying to, like in any normal conversation. This is the obviously correct choice. Top-posting means that the reply is placed above what you're replying to, completely unintuitively and against how things works in every other context. This is obviosly wrong and bad, but is the hell we have to live with when mailing these days.