Stevens wrote: > Eberhard, and others: > > I view the list's messages individually in kmail, not as a newsgroup > and not with a threaded view. It matters not to me if someone top > posts, bottom posts or inserts comments in the included text. > > In fairness to those who make the "mistake" of top posting, many > email clients (especially the free ones, like Yahoo mail) put you > at the top of any included text when you do a "reply to". It takes > a bit of effort to invert that order. Also, most, if not all, corporate > email exchanges use top posting, so insisting that users bottom > post is forcing users to modify their behavior to satisfy the limits > of the software (your threading newsgroup stuff). > > Like I said above, I don't give a rip one way or the other. I just find it > amusing that I can almost set my watch to the time that it takes > someone to admonish "No top post, please!"
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