On Sep 22, 2011 3:43 AM, "Adam Thompson" <athom...@athompso.net> wrote: > > It would be much easier to accommodate that request if Amy of the email clients I use permitted me to do so. > My Android phone does not permit doing so in any way whatsoever.
Eh? I'm using Samsung Galaxy Ace, and using the built in Gmail client I can bottom-/middle-post. Turn off the onscreen keyboard, and a "Respond inline" button will be uncovered. Tap that, and Bob's your uncle :-) A totally different situation though if I use the Gmail Java mobile client on my Nokia E72-1. That stupid client can only top-post. > Microsoft Outlook permits bottom-posting only for plain ASCII messages; a flaw in the HTML editor prevents doing so with HTML messages. > Both support not quoting the thread at all, but IMHO that's even worse than top-posting. > For this list, can't you convert the email to plaintext and then bottom-post? > I agree that top-posting is bad, but short of switching MUA (technically impossible) and declining to use my smartphone for email (yeah, right), I fear this is another aspect of social behaviour that is being relegated to the dustbin of history due to changing (not improving) technology. As are mailing lists themselves, albeit at a much slower rate. > Complaining about top-posting given today's dominant MUAs is about as useful as complaining that you don't have an automatic fax document retrieval system... Remember those? :-) > (With more and more people using email exclusively on mobile devices, I foresee this getting worse, not better.) > I sympathize with your situation, having experienced using a patently stupid email client (see my comment about Gmail Java mobile client above). Rgds,
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