On Wed, 13 May 2009 07:28:42 -0700 Craig White wrote: > Most 'top posters' are too lazy to actually clean up the e-mail below to > just retain the pertinent items to which they are responding to, leaving > the challenge to the next reader to figure it out. 1. top posting is the default with Micro$oft Outlook, and a lot of us are FORCED into using it at the office. So most people being outlook users will tend to do "what comes natural" /wrt email systems. 2. it might not be laziness as much as time-starved, as in it takes less time to reply that way than other ways. 3. what I hate MUCH more than top posting, is those FW'd emails from my relatives that have forwarded their mail from 25 different people (not bothering to strip out all the headers etc. this makes for an email whose "meat" is at the last 10 lines of a 1000 line email. -- Hobbit Name: Pimpernel Loamsdown Registered Linux User: 275424 K7AZJ This email's Fortune: The ends justify the means. -- after Matthew Prior --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss