* Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 12 07:30 -0500]:
> tom arnall wrote:
> > what is a 'top-poster'?
> >
> It's a person who sends a reply to email by putting their response at the top
> of the material to which they're responding. Some broken email clients,
> notably Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express, encourage this bad behaviour
> (notice the "us") by placing the cursor at the top of the email when Replying.
Add Bloated (Lotus) Notes to the list as it does everything in its
power to discourage anything but top posting. It's really great to get
those memos at work and have to work from the bottom up, scrolling down
and up, to get the context to which everyone in the forward chain has
added their "FYI" and other comments. Replies are just as bad.
This is a problem that will get worse before it gets better as many
folks using a "corporate solution" have been trained that top posting
is proper. Expect bug reports to flow in the future against "broken"
clients like Mutt...
- Nate >>
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