On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 07:43:05AM -0800, Francis Healy wrote:
> Why is it that most mail clients default to a top post? When you hit
> reply, There is a blank space where your cursor it, followed by .....
> wrote: and then the message you are replying to. If top posting is really
> as bad as some individuals claim (and I am by no means convinced of this),
> then change this default behavior in mail clients.
Define "most". In all of the email clients I have ever chosen to use not
a single one exhibits the behavior you describe. Pine, elm, mutt, PMMail/2,
PMMail2000, TheBat, Sylpheed-Claws, Thunderbird just to name most. Pretty
much the only culprit is Lookout! Is that surprising given that it is a
Microsoft product and their modus operandi is to break standards since they
know the ignorant masses of their typical user will think it is the other
people who are broken?
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