> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Mouse > Sent: 10 December 2015 01:32 > To: cctalk@classiccmp.org > Subject: Re: TOP POSTING (was: RE: Best 200 buck I have ever spent!!! Deal > of a lifetime!!! > > >> All the email clients I have are top posting > > There are good civilized email clients available in plenty; if you don't happen > to have any, I can only assume you can't be bothered. >
I have searched high and low for a decent e-mail client for Windows. All the ones I have tried suck in some way. Outlook will no longer let me post in-line on HTML mails. FreeBird won't look at calendars. Em is just a pain. > >> get with the times > > No. > > If your email client defaults to top-posting, it probably also defaults to no- > trimming, which is possibly an even greater offense; take a few moments to > trim your quotes for relevance and put your text where it belongs (which is > inline after the parts you're responding to, not just moved to the bottom). If > your email client won't let you do that, it is just plain broken and has no place > in civilized discourse. > > Or, of course, feel free to be as obnoxious as you want in how you format > your outbound email. But everyone else is equally free to ignore you. I > know I certainly am likely to, if you insist on top-posting and/or not trimming. > > > Top posting implies that you are only interested in computers from the > > 1990s or newer. > > Actually, it's just plain arrogant (and/or rude). I've written up a piece which > describes how I see this, which is at ftp.rodents- > montreal.org:/mouse/blah/2012-09-26-1a.txt; the last three paragraphs are > especially relevant to this point. > > /~\ The ASCII Mouse > \ / Ribbon Campaign > X Against HTML mo...@rodents-montreal.org > / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B
