Yes, I'm aware I'm tilting at windmills here.

On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:03 PM, Jesse Nesbitt wrote:
I post at the top of the mail because that's how Gmail does it, and it
keeps conversation flow well enough, and compacts large blo0cks of
quoted text. Arbitrary style rules  are not cool, man.

Gmail, as well as every other news reader on the planet, places your cursor at the top of the email for the following reason:

2.4 But my newsreader places the cursor above the quoted text.

Yes, of course. The cursor is placed at the beginning so you can edit
the text from top to bottom and delete the parts you are not
referring to. And of course it is easier for you to place your
response where it belongs - the newsreader has no way of knowing this.


On Jul 28, 2006, at 3:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, well, dictating style to a large number of people, many of whom
will never read the style guidelines, is waging a war one cannot win.
Additionally, this list is delivered via email. Most users of email are used to new text being on top, above a delimiter reading something like
"-----Original Message-----".  This is not a forum, and it is not
Usenet.  It is email, and thus email standards are used by most.

Okay, how about an RFC:

From http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1855.html:

3.0  One-to-Many Communication (Mailing Lists, NetNews)
3.1.1 General Guidelines for mailing lists and NetNews
[...]
    - If you are sending a reply to a message or a posting be sure you
      summarize the original at the top of the message, or include just
      enough text of the original to give a context.  This will make
      sure readers understand when they start to read your response.

More peoples' opinions and arguments:
http://www.redballoon.net/~snorwood/quote-rant.shtml

For the ultimate in nauseating debate over the issue:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting

(see also its Talk page, it's quite entertaining.)

-b


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