On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:30:46AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote: >It was Outlook that >(from memory) decided pretty unilaterally that top posting was the way >to go
The ancestor of Outlook, an internal messaging system written as a competitor to Novell's system and bought in by Microsoft, did this because its back-end mail store (which became Exchange) was too unreliable to assume users would have access to earlier messages. When Outlook was turned into an Internet-facing product and hurriedly bodged to follow (some) Internet standards, this decision wasn't changed. R _______________________________________________ get_iplayer mailing list get_iplayer@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/get_iplayer
