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    AD>   Re: Bottom-posting etiquette   
    AD>   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   
      
    AD> The software defintely can take a partial blame to that as well. That   
    AD> said, some people are just lazy and don't change their settings even   
    AD> though they're the first people to pipe up when someone else doesn't   
    AD> 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.   
      
    AD> It's probably some sort of generation gap type thing. Either way, we've   
    AD> exchanged emails in the past, and I'm pretty sure you've noticed I   
    AD> bottom post on _everything_. Like you said, it's just easier to read   
    AD> that way.   
      
    AD> I use Thunderbird for email, and go with the settings of bottom posting   
    AD> AND plain text format. I don't need to see 1800 smileys in an email,   
    AD> along with the other html garble. :)   
      
      
   Try bottom posting useing a Blackberry or an IPOD or something like that. Its   
   really not easy and I think its impossible on a Blackberry.    
      
   People get goofy about it for sure.    
       
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