Personally, I don’t care whether people bottom-post, top-post, or comment in-line. What I dearly wish for (but do not expect to ever get) is consistency.
At least two or three times a week, someone forwards me an email thread with 8 or 9 embedded messages that works out to six or seven hundred lines of text. A couple were top-posted, a couple bottom-posted, and the remainder inserted comments in-line. Yuck. Trying to follow the conversation at that point is incredibly confusing. Start at the top, jump to the bottom, oh, this one is in-line... Now my head hurts, I need more coffee, and I still haven’t figured out the point of this stupid thread.
I should note that this sort of mess would be easiest if everyone bottom-posted (because I could just read the mess in order) but consistent top-posting or commenting in-line can be followed fairly reasonably as well. So, I propose the following etiquette: first responder chooses the style (e.g., in-line, top-post, bottom-post). Anyone that responds to *that* email should follow the established precedent.
And yes, I am aware that it will never happen.
Tim
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