[PLUG] top posting vs. bottom posting

[Geoff Burling]

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, AthlonRob wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-11-04 at 16:27, Rich Shepard wrote:
>
> > > Top posting is handy in situations where there is only a few discussions
> > > occurring, and the messages are relatively short.  Situations where
> > > there's really no need to reread what has already been said, except just
> > > to know which message it was in response to.  In all fairness, I am a
> > > member of several mailing lists that specifically request top posting. And
> > > it works very well in those places.
> >
> >   How about those winduhs users (e.g., users of AOL) who "top post" because
> > none of the original message is included in the response? Try figuring out
> > what's going on when you sent your message a day or so ago.
>
> To be fair... AOL defaults to bottom-posting.  If you highlight the text
> you wish to reply to, and hit the reply button, the text is quoted (HTML
> blockquote style) and the cursor is set at the bottom of the message.
>
Perhaps my biggest gripe with Outlook is that there is no simple way to
make it conform to bottom-posting & putting the greater-than signs along
the left-hand side; believe me, I've looked & asked Windows weenies who
should know, but Clippy ain't helpful. And it's infuriating to me
because it's just one more demonstration that MS thinks they know what
is best for me, & are making me do it their way. To paraphrase Lily
Tomlin, they've made over eight billion dollars from their software last
quarter; they don't have to care.

Geoff