Business had email before Outlook from the time of Windows 3 for GUI clients. e.g. CC-mail and earlier to console based email. The standard there was top-posti

Business had email before Outlook from the time of Windows 3 for GUI clients. e.g. CC-mail and earlier to console based email. The standard there was top-posting and I suspect that came from other business email which used terminals. Some mailing lists I am on say you must use top posting and quote the lot because there is no guarantee that the recipient has received the message you are replying to also reply to the top so people do not have to waste time by scrolling down and down ... The issue is that most emailers - including emacs don't collapse the quotes.. Also they say don"t break lines - let the tool you are reading with wrap them. Internet RFCs say wrap the lines to 72/80 chars.