Why top-posting is bad

[Rahul Siddharthan]

Brad Knowles said on Aug 30, 2004 at 13:45:07:
> > 1. In private mail, I really don't care, unless the formatting is
> >    truly egregious.  On such (very rare) occasions I've prodded the
> >    sender a bit.
> >
> > 2. On public mailing lists, I know perfectly well that others will
> >    complain louder than I do, so I don't care.

[snip]
> 	Having a friend tell you that your fly is unzipped is much nicer 
> than running around with your underwear (or genitals) hanging out for 
> everyone to see, and then having some random stranger on the street 
> five hours later tell you what your friend should have told you 
> earlier.

You're equating top-posting to an undone fly?  Excuse me, take a look
at the real world sometime.  It's more like telling your friend at the
beach that his necktie is knotted unsymmetrically.

Rahul