You've made three points that need replies in your message. Top-posting
makes it very awkward to reply to these points. Interspersed replies make
the points being answered obvious. See below:
Brian said:
Because it makes it harder to specify which point in the OP is being
answered. The style of quoting I am using makes it obvious that I am
answering your first question.
It seems eminently more efficient to me in that it
eliminates having to scroll down on every post.
Snipping should be done, no matter which style of quoting is being used. I
will concede that lazy bottom-posters who don't adequately snip are just as
bad as top posters who don't snip.
Also, if you (the reader) need to refer to the original post while reading
the reply, you will do a lot more scrolling than you would if the replies
were interspersed.
Can you give me one
good reason?
I think the above covers this request. However, another reason is that
bottom posting (or better yet, interspersed) allows sigs to work correctly.
The sig should be the last item in a post, because most news readers will
treat everything appearing after the sig token (--) as a signature, either
snipping it in some cases, or graying it out in others. So if you top-post
and put your sig immediately after your reply, the text you are quoting (or
failing to snip) will be treated as if it was part of your sig. So, if you
solve that by moving your sig to the bottom of the post (leaving your reply
at the top), your sig is unlikely to be read. Of course, if you don't care
if anyone reads your sig, this won't bother you, but ...
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Bob Barrows