[SpamCop-List] Re: Please explain this term "top posting". What does it have to do with my (legitimate) query?

[Frank Ellermann]

Porpoise wrote:

>> I doubt the "most", but "many" should be okay.  Where the
>> "many" often include new users with heavy weapons like OE.

> Or people who are having a two-way conversation and know what
> they already said and so don't need it preceding the reply.....

True, but then you don't need any quotes, top, bottom, or inline.

Most mailers do a decent job to present "threads" based on both
Subject: and References:  My mail software is too stupid to
evaluate In-ReplyTo:, but it's really old.

> I don't know why it was posted to my email anyway...!!??!!

Maybe the author knew that "top-posting" is off topic in an
NG about spam, or he thought that you won't hit him for an
apparently "stupid" question, I can only guess.  You could
ask him, sometimes users confuse Re:Mail and Re:News - or at
least I do this from time to time.
                                    Bye, Frank