On Friday 10 June 2005 17.46, Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: > Joe Potter wrote: > >That, of course, is the main point you made. I put all this in the lap > >of Bill Gates --- the miserable ass. He is never happy unless he is > >destroying some standard and replacing it with crap of some kind. > > Outlook does it this way not to be contrary, but for an obvious reason: > it works better for the people who use it. > > If you're involved in a discussion, and you're tracking it all -- > because if you don't you're fired -- you want to see the most > up-to-date addition to the discussion, and for the 5% of the time you > need reminding, you can scroll down. The immediate previous bit will > probably remind you, and if not, the bit before that, etc. It's much > more useful for that sort of discussion than bottom-posting. And I'm > not speaking as a Windows-brainwashed suit -- I've been using Unix > tools since 1984 and email since 1975.
More importantly, I think it would be difficult to use bottom-posting with html mail or rtf text or whatever it is called. And while plain text is better in most situations, I have to admit there are situations where formatted text can be useful. For example, sometimes you want to include an image at a certain position in the e-mail, underline, make text bold, color a certain text, include links without cluttering the text with long http addresses. I use that when I paste code snippets and colored code diffs, include links to defect reports etc in my daily work. And I suppose we shouldn't forget all the other non-technical people who want to format their e-mails with background images and fancy type faces. Anyway, finding a technical solution that allows that to be combined with bottom-posting would probably be difficult to implement, although I would love to see it. Sadly Lotus Notes doesn't seem to handle it very well, same as Outlook and the like. -- Olle Eriksson [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.olle-eriksson.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
