On 27 May 2014 12:54, Anton Piatek <anton@???> wrote:
> Your presumption however assumes that it is that much harder to read?
> If it really were, then all mail clients would make top-posting hard.
>
If I wrote my reply in ROT13, it would be harder to read.
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The fact that most of the corporate mail clients don't speaks volumes
> for how the rest of the world thinks email should work.
>
"Writing an email at the top because that's where the cursor is, is like
messing in your trousers because that's where your backside is." (sanitised
for a family-friendly list :-)
That cursors appear at the top is a "good thing" - if it defaulted to the
bottom, I'd have to scroll all the way back up to start reading the content
of the email.
But just because I read from the top, doesn't mean that's where my reply
should go. It *should* go wherever is best for it.
> Personally I'd rather see secure email solved rather than top/bottom
> posting
>
Quite... it's a very different issue though (I'd rather see malaria
eradicated... but it has little to do with a discussion about top-posting
;-)
PS You might notice that I don't 'bottom post' or 'top post'... I try to
make my replies address the content I'm talking about.
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