top or bottom?

[Randy Alexander]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 3:55 AM, Jesse Sheidlower <jester at panix.com> wrote:
> The fact that there exist shoddy e-mail clients that silently
> alter the content of messages hardly seems like a good reason
> to condemn bottom-posting, which is Right.

The fact that there exist shoddy e-mail clients that silently alter
the content of messages seems like a good reason for the people using
them to upgrade to smarter ones, like gmail, which can even forward
incoming messages to your favorite shoddy e-mail client, just in case
you need to satisfy that pack-rat tendency to keep that shoddy client
just in case.

Of course there may be the occasional person in a compromised
situation, but those situations would have to be thought out on a
case-by-case basis.

--
Randy Alexander
Jilin City, China
My Manchu studies blog:
http://www.bjshengr.com/manchu

------------------------------------------------------------
The American Dialect Society - http://www.americandialect.org