On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 11:08:34AM +0530, Lahar Appaiah wrote:
> I find bottom posting a little .. dinosaur-ish. Corporate email has
> effectively institutionalized top-posting, and the default now seems to be
> to top-post for a general reply, and to reply inline for specific points.
> I find it a
Let us call it a hangover from the days of 9600 bps modems and slow uucp feeds.
—srs
> On 25-May-2015, at 11:08 am, Lahar Appaiah wrote:
>
> I find bottom posting a little .. dinosaur-ish. Corporate email has
> effectively institutionalized top-posting, and the default now seems to be
> to t
I find bottom posting a little .. dinosaur-ish. Corporate email has
effectively institutionalized top-posting, and the default now seems to be
to top-post for a general reply, and to reply inline for specific points.
I find it amusing how the bottom-posting brigade tries to claim that
top-posting i
If you select the bit of text that you want to reply to and then
click
'reply', Gmail will format it as a bottom-post. Try it! :)
OK, here goes. But why is not default?
The just-so story is so that one can show respect for a cultivated
audience (or at least distinguish oneself from the une
