EMC NetWorker discussion <NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU> wrote on 
01/28/2008 06:57:44 PM:

> Tim Mooney wrote:
> 
> > Call me elitist if you wish, but I would place more weight on the 
opinions
> > of the people that answer the preponderance of the questions.  The 
term
> > you once used for those people was "NetWorker List Superstars".
> 
> As someone who has posted a few times on this list in the past, I will 
> weigh in with my opinion. Personally I detest top posting. I think a 
> readable reply to a discussion should take the form of one or more 
> responses to points made by the poster whose message you are replying 
> to. All the rest of the chaff should be disposed of.
> 
> However - this really depends on the tools available. Most decent mail 
> clients make in-line replies quite simple, by automatically quoting the 
> previous message. This includes sophisticated quality mail clients such 
> as Thunderbird and many others, and also some old text based favourites 
> such as elm, pine, and good old mailx.
> 
> There is one abomination of a proprietary mail client which makes 
> in-line posting extremely difficult, and virtually forces the user to 
> top-post. 

You must mean a Blackberry, because when I used Outlook, I used to 
bottom-post all the time. It's not hard, nor impossible - just a couple of 
extra steps. I even do it on the current abomination of a mail client I 
currently use (Notes).

> Unfortunately this particular mail client is widely used due 
> to it being  about the only client compatible with a widely used 
> proprietary backend mail server, 

I did used to use Thunderbird IMAP client with Exchange, to read and send 
email. You can't do scheduling with anything except Outlook, but we're not 
talking about scheduling.

I can live with top posting. Not trimming, or not quoting back *anything*, 
is highly aggravating.

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