I hate top-posting. To a degree that if I'm included in the middle of some on-going mail thread, I often rewrite top-posting quotes into bottom-posting quotes b

I hate top-posting. To a degree that if I'm included in the middle of some on-going mail thread, I often rewrite top-posting quotes into bottom-posting quotes before replying. Call me a mad guy, but it usually allows me to write much better response (in terms of quality and readability). (Incidentally, it would often allow writing better responses by previous interlocutors, if they only started doing so...) Exceptions can be two mostly: - Sending from the phone, where proper quoting is quite inconvenient and it's too easy to mess everything. - Writing tl;dr summaries at the top of the mail, that are simply required for some people (but I use proper bottom-posting later). The most important part of bottom-posting is ability to clearly respond to particular parts of the mail in a quote-response, quote-response manner. Top-posting usually works like obfuscation, making leaving some things unanswered much harder to notice. It's definitely useful in corporate environments, that goes without saying... --- My second biggest problem regarding mails is that people rarely _really_ read them, which makes these textual conversations hard and longer than necessary. Sometimes I feel that I am the only one that reads whole mails before replying to them.