On 26 Sep 2003, Bart Garst wrote:

> > Could you please give an example of when top posting is appropriate?

> Anytime I'm not directly answering a question embedded in the body of a
> message.

That is definitely fine to top-post then. But then it is not considered
"top-posting" since you would probably not have included any of the body
of the original message.

   Jeremy C. Reed
   http://bsd.reedmedia.net/