[sdiy] Posting etiquette

[Nicholas Gregorich]

On Nov 23, 2006, at 10:05 PM, mcb, inc. wrote:

> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006, Nicholas Gregorich wrote:
>
>> Seems like every mail client these days wants to top post.  What  
>> do you guys prefer?
>
> My favorite argument follows as the well-known .sig fodder but if
> all you have is Outlook, well, I guess you'll have to be indulged:
>
> A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text.
> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> A: Top-posting.
> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>
> m
>
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> Monty Brandenberg

I don't use Outlook thankfully, but Mail.app (MacOS) puts the cursor  
at the top of the message by default.

When a large portion of people don't follow the logic in your sig it  
makes less sense to mix top posting and bottom posting in messages  
like I feel I have been doing,  Maybe that's my problem, mixing seems  
like the worst of both worlds.

Thanks for your input.

Nick.