On 12/16/2011 02:03, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote:
I don't really think that people put any conscious thought into if they
should top or bottom post. A majority of mail clients and
the aforementioned Gmail default to top posting. What I would like to know
is why is this the common practice. Obviously, people on forums and mailing
lists like everything in the top down, first to last format. This
frustrates me. I'll have to look into that greasemonkey plugin.. I am
always fighting gmail on this issue.
Ringmaster
I believe top posting is common because [average] people don't use
e-mails to write/read long texts anymore, but rather for chatting.
Actually, nowadays it seems natural that if there is a way people can
chat through some text message system, they will. I've unfollowed a lot
of people who apparently thought twitter was just another web messenger.
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Rodrigo
