But that's not what the post is saying? He's not shaking his fist at it, he's realizing that it's not as bad an idea as he'd thought: "top-posting is optimizin

But that's not what the post is saying? He's not shaking his fist at it, he's realizing that it's not as bad an idea as he'd thought: "top-posting is optimizing for the common case". (And keep in mind that the post is from 2009. For comparison, I switched to top posting in my personal email in 2013 [1] at which point it was controversial [2]) [1] https://www.jefftk.com/p/abandoning-bottom-posting https://www.jefftk.com/p/abandoning-bottom-posting [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5233428 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5233428