It just shows how "dated" this whole discussion is...... It must be quite a few months - years even- since i got email from anyone on a windows box! Most mail nowadays originates from ios or android or even OSX. And top-posted by default
On 21 Feb 2016, at 07:02, Niels Kobschaetzki niels@kobschaetzki.net wrote:
On 16/02/21 16:05, Tim wrote: Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2016, Ntlworld sent:
Unless you live in cloud cuckoo land (academia?)! You surely cannot have faiked to notice that all business people Top post - which is why most mail clients are set to top post by default - its about time mailing lists did the same!!
You miss the point, that you're supposed to participate in a list in the manner that the list has told you to do so. It's in the introductory information, and the list members are telling you to do so, now.
In the business world, *you* are top posting because you're conforming to *their* norm.
And in my experience most businesses are using Outlook and that makes inline-quoting hard. So people started top-posting. So people top post. People who are using mailing lists, especially on linux-related topics rarely use Outlook, so they can quote inline and thus make everything more readable.
Niels
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