Kelly Fulks wrote:
On Sunday 07 March 2004 06:07, Steven T. Hatton wrote:
3) Top-posting is an extremely Microsoftish form of behavior.
Here I disagree. I tried this in KMail and in Pine and both by default set me up to top post a reply. Therefore you can't say that it is Microsoftish behavior.
You're ignoring history. Where was top posting common before M$ hijacked internet standards? Nowhere. M$ decreed that the internet should have top posting (and quoteless quotes) by making its default behavior opposite the theretofore norm. Since the countless dweebs first using the M$ mutant email generally have no clue this is not conformant to the norm, much less something they can change to conform, the internet is now scourged with Jeopardy email. KMail & Pine have apparently since decided to play copycat.
The authors of OSS are also bucking tradition and changing the norm by default. Most users, when replying to a message, simply start typing where the cursor gets set and if their mail program sets them up for top posting, that is what they will do.
Precisely the problem initiated by M$'s default behavior and now commonplace. -- "Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." President Abraham Lincoln Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/