Re: Bottom-posting etiquette   
     By: Nightfox to All on Mon Feb 06 2012 10:55 pm   
      
    > What I find especially strange is how people often put all the blame on   
    > other people for top-posting when I think the software is partially to   
    > blame.  Many email programs & services I've used currently and in the past   
    > (Eudora, Mozilla Thunderbird, Hotmail, Gmail, Yahoo Mail, etc.) all   
    > top-post, and with some of them, I don't think there's even an option to   
    > change it so they bottom-post by default.  So as many people argue with   
      
   The software defintely can take a partial blame to that as well. That said,   
   some people are just lazy and don't change their settings even though they're   
   the first people to pipe up when someone else doesn't follow "protocol". heh   
      
    > I just find it interesting that there is a double-standard regarding   
    > top-posting and bottom-posting, where bottom-posting is the norm on BBSs   
    > and usenet, and top-posting seems to be the norm pretty much everywhere   
    > else.  I also find it interesting that people make such a fuss about it   
    > when someone does the opposite.   
      
   It's probably some sort of generation gap type thing. Either way, we've   
   exchanged emails in the past, and I'm pretty sure you've noticed I bottom post   
   on _everything_. Like you said, it's just easier to read that way.   
      
   I use Thunderbird for email, and go with the settings of bottom posting AND   
   plain text format. I don't need to see 1800 smileys in an email, along with   
   the other html garble. :)   
      
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