From my observations, top posting sometimes gives misguided sense of security, particularly when they are not seeing the whole picture of how E-mail works. I'v

From my observations, top posting sometimes gives misguided sense of security, particularly when they are not seeing the whole picture of how E-mail works. I've seen couple of people in the past with habit of keeping just the most recent message, because they think the "history is all there" and want declutter their inbox. It's a bad practice, but they just couldn't see the possibility someone changing the history. They had hard time when someone decided to prune the old portions, or reply inline without leaving the whole text intact.