Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Tony Wood
On 20/05/14 07:25, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 07:03:31 +0100, t...@engineering.selfip.org said: The etiquette was that one should reply underneath, but haven't the top posters won? The history of persuading others to change their behaviour to make life easier for oneself is not

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Owain Clarke
I second that! On 20/05/14 08:09, Tony Wood wrote: On 20/05/14 07:25, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 07:03:31 +0100, t...@engineering.selfip.org said: The etiquette was that one should reply underneath, but haven't the top posters won? The history of persuading others to change

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
On Tue, 20 May 2014 at 07:03:31AM +0100, Tim B wrote: Probably.  Sadly when you ask most top-poster why they do it, very few can come up with a good or meaningfully reason to support their behaviour. It appears to have mostly won because: Most email clients encourage it Most people copy what

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Lisi
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 11:44:18 Dr A. J. Trickett wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2014 at 07:03:31AM +0100, Tim B wrote: Probably.  Sadly when you ask most top-poster why they do it, very few can come up with a good or meaningfully reason to support their behaviour. It appears to have mostly won

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Anton Piatek
Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post Anton -- Anton Piatek http://www.strangeparty.com No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 20 May 2014 13:21, Brad Rogers b...@fineby.me.uk

[Hampshire] Fwd: Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Daniel Llewellyn
On 20 May 2014, at 13:27, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post Gmail’s interfaces are all geared up for top-posting both on mobile and desktop browsers and native apps. The nice thing, however, is that Gmail provides SMTP and

Re: [Hampshire] Fwd: Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Anton Piatek
On 20 May 2014 21:24, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 May 2014, at 13:27, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post Gmail’s interfaces are all geared up for top-posting both on mobile and desktop browsers and

Re: [Hampshire] Top posting

2014-05-20 Thread Samuel Penn
On Tuesday 20 May 2014 13:27:50 Anton Piatek wrote: Gmail on mobile actively makes it more difficult to bottom post Really? Click the Respond inline button and it switches to inline quoting, and even adds a proper On X, Y wrote line to the start of the quoted text. You can then start adding