recently, one of the system operators on a listserv i subscribe to
chided me for bottom-posting my replies. here is one of the responses
to the discussion when i explained the so-called convention of
bottom-posting:

You might not be scrolling down far enough to find the message, Rick. I thought Jeff wasn't responding several times, because of the original email coming first. No telling how many of his messages I missed that way. I correspond with people all over the country and the world, partly as a team member for website design and upkeep on two servers.. I think the midwesterner who chewed Jeff out is seriously in the minority with his views on"netiquette." And, like Ann Marie, I find that response style inconvenient. Of the eight computers and phones I use for email, none has that default setting for email replies,either. Which just goes to show that there may be many ways to do this.

Enjoy the weekend,
Leslie Rawls