On 12 September 2013 21:58, Derek Smithies derek.smith...@gmail.com 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
I am bucking the orthodxy regarding top posting.
I recently sent a reply to a person who uses a smart phone for emails. When
asked if he had recievied my reply he said no, the email he got from me wes a
bounce of his original email. Further faffing about established that the
original email
On Thu 12 Sep 2013 21:46:57 NZST +1200, Ross Drummond wrote:
To avoid a repeat of this I am now using top posting.
If you're too lazy/whatever to trim your replies, you're not worth being
read...
And if the smart phone is smarter than its user, nuff said.
Volker
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Volker Kuhlmann
Volker Kuhlmann wrote, On 09/12/2013 10:04 PM:
And if the smart phone is smarter than its user, nuff said.
I do enjoy the English turn of phrase sometimes... Was reading
something from a Pom and the word cleverphone was used, and I thought
that was very well said.
Could have been
I've interestingly noted that thunderbird (favoured by many of us)
encourages bottom posting by it's default setting, but every time I set
it up for someone (or myself) I always change that.
I'd add that if I am coming in to a thread as the 2nd or subsequent
reply, to follow what the method
