On 2011-09-08, Tanstaafl wrote: > On 2011-09-07 9:29 PM, Don Myers <[email protected]> wrote: >> I live in the US. I do a lot of work e-mails in my job, and receive a >> lot of work e-mails. I never receive any e-mails where people reply >> to me at the bottom. The reply is always at the top. > > That is *only* because Microsoft decided to make blindly top-posting > (and quoting the *entire* previous *email*, rather than encouraging > users to actually *think* about what they are replying to and respond > intelligently).
It all started spreading even faster when the bussiness world started using e-mail tools that weren't designed for e-mail or that were made after September 1993. Then some people started adopting that behavior, because they probably thought "if they're using it this way, that's how I should use it". And nowadays it's not just help centers and bussinesses, it's other people too. If you do office work (like Tom), or interact with bussiness people a lot, then you'll probably see lots of people top-posting. >> I never understood why Thunderbird had the default to reply at the >> bottom when Thunderbird came out. > > Now you know. Because Thunderbird has cultural inheritance that dates from August 1993 or earlier. >> It was backwards!!!!!! > > No, it is correct - it is only 'backwards' for those weaned on > Outlook. Hmm, I've been reading books by increasing order of page number. I guess I've been doing it backwards all my life. -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
