Interleaved vs. top-posting

[Bob Martin]

in 720726 20140411 134419 Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
>On 2014-04-11 13:59, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> I have seen plenty of cultures where people are unaware of the value
>> of interleaved/bottom posting, but so far, not one where anyone has
>> actually required it. Not one.
>
>The only time I've seen top-posting required (though there was
>nothing about trimming/dropping the content from the bottom) was on
>some lists for blind users where they wanted the new content at the
>top of the email rather than having to wade through lots of content
>they'd heard previously.  The actual context was usually either given
>by in-sentence referencing to the topic, or the subject-heading
>(blind folks seem to have an incredible memory for things sighted
>folks are usually too lazy to remember).

I read IBM's internal forums from 1978 on (on VM/CMS).
Top posting was the norm where quoted text was included, though
quoting wasn't necessary as there was a means to display the post
being answered.