I find bottom posting a little .. dinosaur-ish. Corporate email has effectively institutionalized top-posting, and the default now seems to be to top-post for a general reply, and to reply inline for specific points. I find it amusing how the bottom-posting brigade tries to claim that top-posting is insensitive/ boorish/ uncultured/ etc. This is almost like that other great concept, Mansplaining- something that is now thrown about when you're convinced about your way being the only way (and is also used more as a way to belittle others than for anything else).
Anyway, lolz. On Sun, May 24, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Dave Long <dave.l...@bluewin.ch> wrote: > >>> OK, here goes. But why is not default? >> > > The just-so story is so that one can show respect for a cultivated > audience (or at least distinguish oneself from the uneducated) by making a > little effort to bottom post, in the same way that one might make a little > effort to use standard grammar and orthography, instead of typing whatever > comes at hazard to the fingertips. > >
