On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Denis Kobozev <d.v.kobozev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bottom posting shows its downside only when you recently joined a > mailing list, for example - you start receiving emails from threads > that have been going for a long time and you have no idea what people > are discussing. But if you're really interested, you can always use > the archive. Top posting doesn't solve this, unless you're implying top posting with no previous messages trimmed. If this is what you're implying you need to compare apples-to-apples and assume the bottom-posted emails will have no previous messages trimmed as well. If this is the case, the bottom posting still wins as it has the entire conversation history _in order_