F8(1) vs multimedia production(0)

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Tue, 2008-08-19 at 17:44 -0400, Ric Moore wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-08-14 at 19:53 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 00:01 +0000, g wrote:
> > > switch to gmail and set up configurations.
> > 
> > Gmail also encourages top-posting, though at least the quoting mechanism
> > is a bit more standard.
> 
> It could also be said that it encourages the user to start at the top,
> to remove all the cruft, as you go downwards to where you compose your
> reply. 
> 
> Otherwise the lazy would start at the bottom and just add their
> two-cents without removing extraneous text.

At the moment most of them start at the top and don't remove the
extraneous text, which by some lights is worse.

> It's all in the
> perspectives. But for someone to say "I top-post because Gmail made me
> do it!", has some real problems with the up-arrow / down-arrow keys.

Nobody says it because they don't even notice. We've been over all this
before days ago Ric (read the rest of the thread).

poc