[LINK] Top posting is evil

[Chris Maltby]

> Craig Sanders wrote:
>> top-posting is evil.

On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 02:49:19PM +1100, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> What really adds to the annoyance is that I am seeing more and more
> top posting than ever before. Is this because of the preponderance
> of email clients that insist on a top-post format when reply to emails?
> 
> i.e. I don't think the user is responsible for this state
> of affairs. If your mailer top-posts it is a real pain to fix up the
> mess each time you post a reply to a list. Blame brain-dead software
> designers who think they know everything and in fact know fsck-all about
> HCI.

I think you can blame Microsoft for this as much as anyone - though I
think there's an "advanced" setting in Outlook that starts your reply
at the bottom of the quoted email - but it doesn't tag the quoted
email in any way that works in plain-text.

One of the nicer features of Eudora that the Mozilla suite could use
is to only quote the text you have selected in the original message
when you click reply.

Chris