Top posting is not what *creates* the crap. Copying the entire email is a standard setting in some clients (toggleable) and an optional setting in others (toggleable) and probably there are some which don't let you select to do that, or undo it either!
Personally I don't want to scroll down through a 200 word email just to see "me too" at the very bottom.
The real issue to me, is that those who have an email client which copies the entire email in response, don't trim the verbage.
W.J.
In a message dated 3/30/2010 4:15:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time, jayvdb@gmail.com writes:
I am often in "outback" Australia, with only dialup or very slow mobile broadband available. It is very annoying to need to download many copies of the same "crap" because people top post.
On 31 March 2010 01:45, WJhonson@aol.com wrote:
Personally I don't want to scroll down through a 200 word email just to see "me too" at the very bottom.
The opposite of 'top-posting' is 'bottom-posting', which is actually equally bad in my mind, as it creates that exact problem.
There are two decent methods of posting;
'inline-posting' (like this email is; notice I have stripped the rest of your email to reply to what I want to, directly below it) 'clean-posting' (when context is no longer important, scrap all previous content and start afresh)
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