On 12 September 2013 21:58, Derek Smithies <[email protected]> wrote:

> My personal view is that top posting is the default of most mail systems,
> and it is easier
> to not swim against the tide.
>

Indeed, this is now the default with GMail too, much to my disdain :(.

And Gmail makes it reasonably hard to avoid top posting, with ONE notable
exception:

If you highlight part of somebodies message, prior to selecting reply, it
will quote only that part, and return you to a sane default of bottom
posting it ( as I have done here ).

-- 
Kent

perl -e  "print substr( \"edrgmaM  SPA NOcomil.ic\\@tfrken\", \$_ * 3, 3 )
for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 );"
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