Re: Bottom-posting etiquette   
     By: Access Denied to Nightfox on Tue Feb 07 2012 16:52:05   
      
    > 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'r   
    > the first people to pipe up when someone else doesn't follow "protocol". heh   
      
   That's true..  But I'm not sure there is always a setting in the software.    
   I've been using web-based email for quite a while (Gmail and Hotmail), and I   
   don't recall seeing a setting in their preferences to toggle top-posting vs.   
   bottom-posting when replying to emails.   
      
   Also, if one person changes that, it may lead to very confusing emails - In a   
   long thread, your reply would be on the bottom of text where everyone else had   
   replied on top.  Continuity would then be inconsistent.   
      
    > 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 po   
    > on _everything_. Like you said, it's just easier to read that way.   
      
   Yep.  I tend to follow the "when in Rome" rule when emailing people - If they   
   bottom-post (or vice-versa), then I'll do so as well, to keep the flow   
   consistent and less confusing.  However, if I'm emailing someone on a BBS or   
   from the BBS scene, I tend to always bottom-post because that's the norm in the   
   BBS world.   
      
    > 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    
    > other html garble. :)   
      
   :)  I used Thunderbird for a long time too.  If you set it to plain email, do   
   you still see a bunch of HTML tags in your emails, or does Thunderbird filter   
   those out?  I would tend to leave the HTML setting turned on, otherwise I'd get   
   a bunch of HTML tags in my emails, which would make my email very difficult to   
   read.   
      
   I pretty much stopped using Thunderbird though, when I decided to stop using my   
   ISP's email account and use Gmail as my primary email service.  I know   
   Thunderbird can connect to Gmail, but I decided to just use their web interface   
   for consistency (I don't always check my Gmail account on my home computer).   
      
   Nightfox   
      
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