Top Posting....

[Les Mikesell]

On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 11:55, Rick Stevens wrote:
> Don't forget that a lot of the posters are used to that POS virus known
> as Outlook, and it defaults to top-posting as well.

Outlook, like any other mail editor, allows you to position your cursor
wherever you like before typing...  However people on business email
distribution lists tend to prefer top posting because the responses
come quickly enough that the previous one isn't forgotten and everyone
wants the complete conversation log intact instead of just the snippet
that this message addresses.

> Gang, bottom posting has been the standard since Usenet was invented.
> Hell, I still have an ARPA address and looking back at the archives
> shows that we've ALWAYS used bottom posting.

Internet mailing lists have different objectives.  People tend to
imitate what they've seen first.  Not everyone was at a university
during the ARPA days...

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  Les Mikesell
    les at futuresource.com