Gordon wrote:

D. Spencer Hines wrote ...

Put the New Material at the TOP.

Saves time and effort for witting, alert, intelligent readers.

So you read a book from the bottom up?

Careful. Many that proselytize top-posting do flip to the couple of
pages of the last chapter. They're too lazy to provide context.
They're too lazy to snip. They're too lazy to maintain the same order
in the quoted posts as they use as their own posting style. They're not
just ignorant. They choose to be lazy. The Microsoft-cosm is the
entire realm of their computing and Usenet experience. To them, Unix is
probably a one-horned white horse or a poor bloke missing his balls.