When I respond on my phone, the cursor always appears in a top posting 
position. I see no reason to futz woith it.

Paul

> On Nov 22, 2017, at 4:10 PM, ann sanfedele <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 11/22/2017 3:35 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
>> 
>> Jack seemed to be confused by the way his email reader handles email 
>> attributions. This harkens back to a debate that's been going on for at 
>> least 30 years on posting style.
>> 
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
>> 
>> Here is the standard explanation of why top posting is bad
>> 
>> Why I hate top-posting
>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>> A: Top-posting.
>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail and USENET?
>> 
>> Until eternal September, interleaved replies, with added cruft deleted, were 
>> considered the proper and polite way to respond to email or usenet posts.
>> 
> annsan replies... just to be clear...
> 
> Wonder how much reading and sending email using a phone presents a problem.. 
> I have frequently seen emails sent to
> list where the person who quotes something from someone elses post gets 
> credited or blamed for the original person's
> post... most frequently here people misattributing photos to someone else...  
> .
> 
> another thing that happens is the link to a photo being discussed has been 
> stripped off by someone's server .
> 
> Whenever I have correspondance with ebay customers, or other business stuff, 
> they insist on top posting.. "please respond above the line"  The form in 
> ebay messages is set up that way.
> 
> I blame society
> 
> ann
> 
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