> There are probably lots of reasons for top-posting, and I don't think we can > lay the blame on the MS Outlook world. The people I work with use a mixture > of Thunderbird, web-based interfaces, and Outlook. > > Every one of them top-posts :-(.
When you click reply in these email clients, they insert the caret at the top of the email with the original email indented below. This is the out of the box default. It can be changed, but most people won't know how/care to/prefer it this way. > I think top-posting says a lot about the thought process of the poster. To > me it says, "my issue, problem, answer, concern is of paramount importance. > You should remember everything about my issue. After all, I remember > everything about my issue." > > The attitude is probably not malicious, but more along the lines of a lack > of perspective. As long as you can visually distinguish the reply from the original, does it really matter if that reply is above or below the original? When people reply to a thread, as long as their email client indents, you have that clear visual indication. As a programmer, I have seen arguments about indentation and brace position. This smacks to me as one of those. Personally I think that life really is too short to get hung up about this. People want help. I joined this mailing list to help them, to kind of pay back for people that had helped me with previous problems. Lets help them. > Save your own time and the time of everyone else on the list (and the archives, where useless messages can't be removed) and just skip that step. +1 Personally I find replies to threads that are more conversational, far more offensive than top posting. This isn't facebook. If the reply doesn't provide help to the issue at hand, don't send 2C Chris --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
