Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 2011-09-08, Tanstaafl wrote:

> On 2011-09-07 9:29 PM, Don Myers <donmyers@myersfarm.com> wrote:
> > I live in the US. I do a lot of work e-mails in my job, and receive a
> > lot of work e-mails. I never receive any e-mails where people reply
> > to me at the bottom. The reply is always at the top.
>
> That is *only* because Microsoft decided to make blindly top-posting
> (and quoting the *entire* previous *email*, rather than encouraging
> users to actually *think* about what they are replying to and respond
> intelligently).

It all started spreading even faster when the bussiness world started
using e-mail tools that weren't designed for e-mail or that were made
after September 1993.

Then some people started adopting that behavior, because they probably
thought "if they're using it this way, that's how I should use it".

And nowadays it's not just help centers and bussinesses, it's other
people too.

If you do office work (like Tom), or interact with bussiness people a
lot, then you'll probably see lots of people top-posting.


> > I never understood why Thunderbird had the default to reply at the
> > bottom when Thunderbird came out.
>
> Now you know.

Because Thunderbird has cultural inheritance that dates from August 1993
or earlier.


> > It was backwards!!!!!!
>
> No, it is correct - it is only 'backwards' for those weaned on
> Outlook.

Hmm, I've been reading books by increasing order of page number. I guess
I've been doing it backwards all my life.


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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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