Re: PIREP - EnV Smart Phone

"Jay Maynard" <jmaynard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I don't. The online ones default to top posting because Microsoft screwed
up
royally with outlook, and they're being bug-compatible.

I fail to see how not conforming with top-posting on a reply will result in
a software defect.

Because if you're adding a bunch of text at the top, an individual comment
is not related to what it's replying to, as the style I'm using does.

It will be related to the text directly below it if everyone followed their
software's default location.

To see what I mean, imagine if I'd included my text at the top of the
message in a block. How would you know to which concept this comment was a
reply?

Again, it will relate to the text immediately below it.

Then why are you supporting the idea of posting backwards?

"Backwards" is subjective. Bottom-posting is against the general default
software posting location lending to the idea that your preference is
"backward."

Do you repeat what everyone says to you verbatim before you answer them?

No. That's why I trim away what I'm not directly replying to.

Trimming and top-posting are not mutually exclusive. I'm all for trimming
and people who follow their software and post at the default location should
trim as well.

Are peoples' memory that short that they have to read the entire
thread when reading each and every reply?

No. That's why I trim away whatever I'm not directly replying to.

It's easier to trim when everything you need to trim is below the text
needed for context (SHIFT-Page Down).

We can go back and forth ad nauseum but it's all about individual
preference. My preference is not the same as yours but it does not make it
"wrong." My other point is that the vast majority of relevant software does
it a certain way and I don't think they're goose-stepping just to conform
with Microsoft. It certainly won't create a software bug. Gmail top posts
and I doubt they would hesitate to do it another way if they thought it was
better.

I'll continue to bottom-post in this forum if it's the general preference
here because it simply is not that big a deal. But it *is* going against the
grain of the most of the rest of the software world.

Marco






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