Explorations in social networking
If you don’t take the time to edit down what you are replying to, then yes, top posting is the best method. For those of us that want to cut out extraneous emails from our day: why wouldn’t you take the extra bit of time to answer the email properly? Better yet, why wouldn’t you spend an extra 30 seconds and put effort into better email responses? The argument I hear from most people is that they don’t have the time to do this — to which I often wonder if they aren’t just lazy.