Re: iPhone sadness
| From: | jean-baptiste verrey | Date: | Mon, 30 May 2011 18:07:42 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: iPhone sadness | ||
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I like how people just like to complain about everything^^
But as the debate is raging I had a look over internet and
http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html gave the
best argument ever :
we read from *top* to *bottom *so top posting makes you read useless
information^^
Don't worry, be PHaPpy!
On 30 May 2011 19:01, Lester Caine <lester@lsces.co.uk> wrote:
> Ashley Sheridan wrote:
>
>> And, BTW, this bottom posting has started just two or three years ago
>>> >when Thunderbird came in place.
>>>
>> Erm, bottom posting has been the standard since day 1 until Microsoft came
>> along and changed it with Outlook. Most people who use Windows tend not to
>> change basic settings from their defaults.
>>
>
> Exactly ...
> I've email archives going back to 1992 and ALL of the early stuff is nicely
> formatted with in-line and bottom posted expansion. I've actually been
> editing things I would like to keep to put some sense back into the archive
> - but on the most part just trimming reams of unnecessary repeated sigs
> where people have not even bothered looking at what they quoted! I've got a
> nice module on my php client management system that trims stuff
> automatically for me when I'm uploading old messages.
>
>
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