top or bottom?

Jesse Sheidlower jester at PANIX.COM
Mon Mar 9 19:55:14 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 03:46:51PM -0400, Victor wrote:
> There is another reason why bottom-posting is "evil". Some email
> clients--both web-based and standalone--do not differentiate between
> nested messages or even strip the nesting code that might come from
> another email client.

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.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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