From: Magda 
Newsgroups: rec.travel.europe uk.finance uk.rec.driving
Subject: Re: Motorists hit by card clone scam
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2007 22:46:28 +0200

On Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:32:13 GMT, in rec.travel.europe, "Calif Bill"
 arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

 ... 
 ... Usenet is about that old, but OE is not.  The bottom posting came about 
 ... because we used KSR-33 Teletypes as input devices.  Was hard to edit the 
 ... received stream, and you typed at the bottom of the message.  The VT-52 CRT 
 ... monitors were similar, so you always got bottom posting.  So I guess most of 
 ... these people are living in the past.  I think top posting is nice for a 
 ... quick response.  Do not have to go the bottom of the message to see the 
 ... response. 

That's what snipping is for.