On Wed, Jul 07, 2004 at 12:02:51AM -0400, John Pedersen wrote:
>
>
> >There are also reasons for
> >top posting, but I suspect those mostly have to do with the convenience
> >or inconvience of specific people.
>
> Or maybe it's because people who use one-to-one email a lot are simply
> used to top-posting. If you live in a world where everybody uses
> top-posting all day long, you might do it out of habit, and you
> certainly wouldn't think it was bad manners!
>
> Or wouldn't you agree that top posting is the clear standard in
> one-to-one email? Every support desk I've ever used seems to
> top-post, and they never snip anything--there's usually a long trailer
> of reversed messages below. I know for sure that I would certainly
> use bottom posting if that's what they did (hey, I want the support,
> so I want to comply with their system!)
>
> Every individual I've ever emailed with uses top-posting. Every
> business contact. I honestly can't remember seeing regular one-to-one
> email where somebody bottom posts--I'll keep an eye open for it from
> now on.
>
> So I suggest, maybe some people are just simply used to doing it the
> top-post way.
>
I strongly suspect that all or the vast majority of those people are
Windows users. That is, they've never been indoctrinated on the proper
way to do things on the internet.
And no, I rarely use top posting on personal emails either. In fact,
I've had to train people in the practice of interleaving, because their
top posting made it so difficult to figure out what they were talking
about.
Paul
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