Top-posting shenanigans (was: Re: ASR33 $1000+ And Counting...)

[Charles H. Dickman]

Vintage Computer Festival wrote:

>>IME *typically* the people who top-post come from an environment where
>>they've only ever used Outlook as their email client. I'm not sure why
>>that link exists, but it's been my observation.
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I would suggest it is because typical Outlook users have had no exposure 
to anything else.

>This is *exactly* where most top-posting comes from.
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>Another thing bad about top-posting is that it encourages lazy behaviour
>(i.e. not trimming replies).
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At my work we use Outlook and everybody does top-posting. I find it 
quite irritating, but necessary. I have tried interleaving comments and 
trimming replies and it confuses the hell out of people that are not 
used to it. Worst case is they don't even see that I commented. When I 
interleave, I have gotten into the habit of adding a line that says, 
Comments inserted below, so that it is not missed.

Outlook is a beast when trying to insert comments in quoted text. It 
seems to either add a bunch of lines, or demote quotes with a simple 
backspace. Sometimes tools encourage bad behavior.

-chuck