On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Jeff Walther <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Jul 24, 5:42 pm, Joshua Juran <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> If you really want people to stop top-posting, get Google, Apple, and
> > whoever else to fix their email clients.
>
> As long as there are folks who consider it their right to be
> inconsiderate, that will be a lost battle.  The clients contribute,
> but the apologists who try to justify not taking a moment to make
> their messages readable are the real problem.
>

It is conceivable that someone who uses gmail exclusively through the web
client is unaware that other email clients do not auto-hide quoted text...
the defaults for the web gmail will look considerate enough for other web
gmail users, with gmail replacing all quoted text in a top-posted reply with
"Show quote text" hyperlink which will auto-expand into the full quoted text
but suppress it's display by default.  Gmail has been around for 7 years at
this point, so maybe there are people who know nothing else... ?

(Disclosure: I grew up on the internet in the early '90s, spent quite some
time on Usenet, and picked up 'good' nettique there... but I have a feeling
there are more 'new timers' than 'old timers' now...)

- Nate

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