On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: >>> Unfortunatly my BlackBerry doesn't allow bottom posting. I hope you guys >>> forgive me for the few times I answer on this list using my mobile >>> device. >> >> What? There's no down arrow on a BlackBerry? >> >> I don't have one of those devices, and fully intend to never have one, so if >> there's a stupid implementation of the reply function, I'd never know it. But >> just asking, that's all. > > There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the > "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the > reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. > This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but does > show you the entire conversation unaltered (when everyone uses > Outlook, anyway) -- and some companies actually /require/ that style > of quoting, believe it or not.
I will add that e-mail clients that are geared toward HTML e-mail tend to go the top-posting route, too, because doing the traditional quoting of HTML e-mails is nearly impossible.
