I used to bottom-post until I noticed that I was the only person doing it over several years of communication, and that following the old convention now made _m

I used to bottom-post until I noticed that I was the only person doing it over several years of communication, and that following the old convention now made _me_ look like the newbie who doesn't know how to use email. Top-posting is efficient for single responses to single-issue threads because it brings the newest and most relevant message to the forefront. Context is not a problem for most messages because readers who have been following the discussion can get sufficient context from the sender and subject line. For the minority of messages where it is a problem, the parent post is right after the text. Context does become a bigger problem when there is a long thread with multiple users discussing multiple topics using the same subject line, as often used to happen on Usenet but which I have rarely seen in email. I will still inline-post if replying to multiple issues in a long post like in old Usenet debates.