OT: Top-posting (was Re: [Mimedefang] Interesting anti-HTML filter side-effect)

[David F. Skoll]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Kris Deugau wrote:

> The reason this happens is that an awful lot of people who should really
> know better don't snip out the irrelevant sections of the message
> they're replying to,

And I'm convinced the reason for _that_ is that most MUA's use
a rinky-dink text widget for composing e-mail instead of a proper
text editor.  So it's fairly tedious to snip out irrelevant text.

I'm still annoyed at the Evolution coders for not supporting an
external editor.  Until then, it's Pine and Emacs for me. :-)

By the way, Claus Assmann, one of the Sendmail developers, has a very
nice signature:

A: Maybe because some people are too annoyed by top-posting.
Q: Why do I not get an answer to my question(s)?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?

--
David.