This was a huge debate on USENET in particular, as well as in the email world until Outlook effectively made top posting the standard. RFC 1855 [1] makes it cl

This was a huge debate on USENET in particular, as well as in the email world until Outlook effectively made top posting the standard. RFC 1855 [1] makes it clear that the correct way is to quote relevant text and then reply. [1] https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1855 https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1855