Re: Where does the Republican Party stand on top posting?

["Åke Nordin" <polymorpevz () gmail com>]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Alex Eckelberry
<AlexE () sunbelt-software com> wrote:
> I started, like everyone else, eons ago with bottom posting.
>
> Then when That Horror Known as Outlook came out, I kept having to force
> others to go to bottom posting, bitterly complaining when they posted on
> top (Outlook's default behavior).
>
> I fought it bitterly.  Huge fights with others (including family).
>
> I was estranged from my own corporate culture.
>
> But then... I started to post on top, and rather liked it.  In fact, the
> more I do, the more I like.
>
> I suppose it's because you don't really read an email from the top to
> the bottom, you actually read email subject lines (and the preview pane)
> from the top of your inbox to the bottom.
>
> An even more miserable admission for my pathetic soul, is that I've
> found I rather like That Horror Known as Outlook.
>
> I see the conflicts in lists that I'm on -- many use old newsreader
> style in their responses, while others use Outlook's defaults.  There's
> a general shift in habits as the world has moved more on to email
> listservs.  Newsreader default behavior is different than Outlook's.
>
> So try it up on top. The view is nice up here, even if it is sometimes
> rather lonely.
>
>
> Alex

Or try the quotefix Outlook wrapper. Takes out the tedium of kosher
quoting style, the style is also configurable to some extent.

<http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/>

-- 
Åke Nordin Unix/net geek, Netia.se consultant, Stacken member.

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