Why top-posting is bad

[Ulf Zimmermann]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:39:37AM -0700, Charles Oppermann wrote:
> >>
>    Most people are used to email in the corporate context and thus
>    used to top-posting.
> <<
> 
> That's a valid point that's not appreciated on either side of the argument.
> 
> >>
> 2. Microsoft Outlook, which unfortunately a lot of people use, doesn't
>    encourage quoting in-text: the "original message" isn't set off by
>    ">" marks or anything else to indicate it wasn't something you
>    wrote. (Perhaps this is a user-settable option, I don't know.)
> <<
> 
> It is a user-option in the Tools menu, Options, E-mail Options, reply and
> forwarding section.
> 
> Charles Oppermann, Copper Software
> http://weblogs.asp.net/chuckop/

An option Outlook loves to ignore, just like it loves to ignore to use
ASCII only.

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