Re: [Evolution] Compositing Pet Peeve

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 18:33 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 14:25 -0400, Philippe LeCavalier wrote:
> > > > P.S. Of course, I wouldn't see this if I weren't top-posting but
> > ppl
> > > > never see my replies when I interweave my responses.
> > >
> > > Er, yes we do.
> >
> > Yes. You certainly do just like everyone else here but none of my
> > clients do ;)
>
> Your clients presumably aren't using mailing lists. The objection to
> top-posting is strictly in the context of Internet mailing lists, which
> tend to have many members, last for many years, and have all their
> traffic archived. In other contexts, do whatever seems best. I often use
> top-posting in private communications.

Perhaps Philippe should file a bug against his clients =p.

But yes, Mailing Lists seem to be the ONLY place bottom-posting 'works'
anymore. In private (long) conversations you have to explicitly state
"reply interleaved" at the top to get anyone to read it.