Jonathan Nichols wrote:

> Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 24 Aug 2005 11:57:09 -0300 Daniel da Veiga
>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> | You know bud, read some rules, be polite.
>>
>> There are many who consider top posting to be just about the rudest
>> thing you could possibly do on a mailing list. HTML email is worse, but
>> not by much.
>>
>
> It's too bad that even *gmail*, the paragon of geek email, encourages
> top posting. :(
>
> And it's also the default setting in Thunderbird. I wish they'd change
> that.

As a matter of curiosity, why is top posting considered bad form.  I'm
using Thunderbird and when it views the mail, by default it is at the
top.  With bottom posting, I have to scroll down to view the post.

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