On Friday, June 12, 2009 9:26 AM [GMT+1=CET], Dorothy Robbie <[email protected]> tweaked the Babbage-Engine to tell us: > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Steve Wood" <[email protected]> >> Most annoying of all to me is mixed bottom and top posting where >> nothing is snipped and different people add comments at the top and >> bottom of a thread depending on their personal preference so you >> have little chance of working out the order of comments. >> >> Re the Blackberry does it not allow you to scroll down through the >> text and/or use the delete key? Very odd. I sometimes send email via >> a Nokia phone which by default top posts replies and its annoying to >> have to scroll to the end of the text and then delete it but I still >> do it. >> >> Steve >> > > Mixed bottom and top posting is very annoying, but Windows Mail and > its predecessor put the cursor at the top, so a lot of people think > that is where one should add one's comments. I have even had someone > take me to task for bottom posting! (not on this list).
My little furry chum Mr. Nash describes top-posting as the act of a "cretinous foul-yob fit only for stoning". He is this: 100% right. The whole phenomenon is the fault of Microsith, if you ask me. -- Dave Larrington <http://www.legslarry.beerdrinkers.co.uk> Hanging from the lamppost on the corner of the street.
