North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical top/bottom posting [Re: HTML-format postings]
On Wed, 6 Jun 2001, Todd Suiter wrote: > > People who top post actually bother you? Is the other way around for me, and > several people I know. I always just figured people who bottom posted were > too lazy to go back to the top of the mail. Who'd a thunk? HTML, on Being quite a newbie at this (having only done email and Fidonet since 1987 (mostly Fido, email not until 1991)) I'd say that historically top-posting is a MEMO standard thingie, being done mostly by GUI users (ie Microsoft/Mac prone) and email/Fidonet have always been bottom-posters (or rather, actually quoting with > and commenting after each section of text). Top posting and leaving the whole email under what you wrote, I did not see att all basically until Outlook and Eudora (and alike) started showing up as email clients in the wider population. -- Mikael Abrahamsson email: [email protected]
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