MoonMan
I only bottom post, because if you don't you get shouted at. If people
snipped irrelevant text it would not be such a problem, but they don't and
I
get ****ed off by having to scroll down through reams of stuff I have read
before to find a 1 line silly comment at the bottom. if it was top posted
life would be much simpler!


Alex:
Only if you are not interested in the context.
I quite agree that there are too many people who don't snip properly,
but that is actually seen more in top posters than bottom.
If you are actually interested in the context, then top posting is
*much* harder to read, because you have to skip backwards and
forwards.

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Alex
In a threaded newsreader it is actually very easy, in fat *simplest* to
maintain context
by snipping ALL prior tezt and inserting only the new post.
Context is maintained by the threading (as it is designed to be!).
The only advantage of editing the post (snip a bit, leave a bit etc.)
is if the threading context is lost, e.g. a google search 5 years later..

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my 2p worth.
Jonathan