[admin] What is top posting, and why should you avoid it?

Alexander W. Janssen yalla at fsfe.org
Fri Jul 18 12:06:35 CEST 2008


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Andrew Berg wrote:
> James P. Howard, II wrote:
>> A minor vent:  the problem now is the proliferation of mobile devices
>> which make it too difficult to not top post.  Users, at this point,
>> are fooled into thinking this is the correct form due to the lack of a
>> practical alternative.
> I think top-posting is common historically because MS Outlook positions
> the cursor at the beginning of a message by default. 

As for Outlook, I can recomment the Outlook quote-fixes:
http://jump.to/outlook-quotefix

YMMV though, but it's better than nothing.

Alex.

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