I like how people just like to complain about everything^^ But as the debate is raging I had a look over internet and http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html gave the best argument ever : we read from *top* to *bottom *so top posting makes you read useless information^^ Don't worry, be PHaPpy! On 30 May 2011 19:01, Lester Caine <lester@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ashley Sheridan wrote: > >> And, BTW, this bottom posting has started just two or three years ago >>> >when Thunderbird came in place. >>> >> Erm, bottom posting has been the standard since day 1 until Microsoft came >> along and changed it with Outlook. Most people who use Windows tend not to >> change basic settings from their defaults. >> > > Exactly ... > I've email archives going back to 1992 and ALL of the early stuff is nicely > formatted with in-line and bottom posted expansion. I've actually been > editing things I would like to keep to put some sense back into the archive > - but on the most part just trimming reams of unnecessary repeated sigs > where people have not even bothered looking at what they quoted! I've got a > nice module on my php client management system that trims stuff > automatically for me when I'm uploading old messages. > > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk// > Firebird - http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > >
