[colug-432] Top or Bottom Post

[Scott Merrill]

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting

The world has changed a bit from when we all used Usenet over dial-up links with ridiculously small local storage options.

Mobile devices, conversation grouping / threading, and an obscene amount of storage makes it easy to stop caring about top posting and so-called "proper" quoting.

For many people, "proper" quoting is whatever their email client defaults to. Why should the average user second guess GMail or Outlook or Thunderbird or whatever their phone does by default?

Upbraiding people because they don't follow our old-school UNIX club rules doesn't help anyone accomplish anything.

Cheerfully top-posted from my phone,
Scott

On Feb 28, 2015 1:04 PM, tom <thomas.w.cranston at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> My understanding is that it is not proper to top post a reply. In 
> practice about half the people top post. Thunderbird automatically puts 
> the cursor in the top position position in a reply. No wonder so many 
> people top post. Anybody use a email client that places the cursor in 
> the bottom post position? 
>
> Tom 
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