Top Posting Question

[Ian Malone]

Michael.Coll-Barth at VerizonWireless.com wrote:

>> From: Jonathan Allen
>> Why 
>> doesn't thunderbird open at the bottom by default, with a 
>> user-option to 
>> open at the top if you really want to ?
> 
> Because USENET and emails are not the same thing.  Just because you get
> USENET postings delivered to you by email and you can respond by email,
> in the end, it is still USENET.  I bottom post ONLY to avoid hassles on
> certain lists, but my preference has always been top-posting, going back
> to the late eighties.  If your message is clear, I don't care.  And I do
> certainly appreciate the trimming of unneeded portions a posting.
> 

Of course fedora-list is a mailing list, not usenet.
(And thunderbird acts as a newsreader client as well as
an email client.)

-- 
imalone