Re: Top-posting [ was Variable names]
Re: Top-posting [ was Variable names]
- Subject: Re: Top-posting [ was Variable names]
- From: Neil Laubenthal <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:04:23 -0500
I guess our mileage varies . . .maybe it's part of what I define as breaks. Mail always reports that it is incompatible with every OS update . . .although if I leave it installed it appears to work but I keep getting the 'this is an incompatible extension' dialog. I got tired of seeing the dialog so I removed the extension.
You may be right . . .maybe this should be a preference in Mail . . .but I would hardly define it as a criminal omission. As I said before . . .some people are religiously zealous over this issue either for or against. Me, I'm an equal opportunity poster/reader . . .I long ago decided that there wasn't anything particularly right or wrong about either way and just stick with what Mail does. I can see why Apple wrote the app the way they did and frankly it isn't worth worrying about to me one way or the other. Sometimes top posting gets in the way . . .sometimes bottom posting gets in the way . . .for instance the earlier comment about top posting being much easier to see the new text when reading on an iPhone without scrolling or in the message preview.
If Apple changed the default to bottom . . .I would just change the way I post. I know that the "rules" 20 years ago prohibited top posting . . .but rules that make sense for geeks (who were the only people using the internet then) don't necessarily make sense for Grandma . . .particularly in the light of a completely new way of reading mail . . .we have windows and scrollbars today instead of using Pine. The rules were defined for usenet anyway . . .and email isn't usenet; not to mention my previous thought that nobody is going to change the way they operate because somebody said to. If you're a bottom poster . . .you'll never convince top posters to change and vice versa.
On Jan 16, 2011, at 9:28 AM, Christopher Stone wrote:
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> That said: top quoting; bottom posting should be a built-in option in Mail, and it's a virtually criminal omission.
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neil
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