It just shows how "dated" this whole discussion is...... It must be quite a few months - years even- since i got email from anyone on a windows box! Most mail nowadays originates from ios or android or even OSX. And top-posted by default > On 21 Feb 2016, at 07:02, Niels Kobschaetzki <niels@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> On 16/02/21 16:05, Tim wrote: >> Allegedly, on or about 20 February 2016, Ntlworld sent: >>> Unless you live in cloud cuckoo land (academia?)! You surely cannot >>> have faiked to notice that all business people Top >>> post - which is why most mail clients are set to top post by default - >>> its about time mailing lists did the same!! >> >> You miss the point, that you're supposed to participate in a list in the >> manner that the list has told you to do so. It's in the introductory >> information, and the list members are telling you to do so, now. >> >> In the business world, *you* are top posting because you're conforming >> to *their* norm. > > And in my experience most businesses are using Outlook and that makes > inline-quoting hard. So people started top-posting. So people top post. > People who are using mailing lists, especially on linux-related topics > rarely use Outlook, so they can quote inline and thus make everything > more readable. > > Niels > -- > users mailing list > users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe or change subscription options: > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users > Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct > Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
