Gmail top posts by default, and hides the quoted text > any of your clients<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 21, 2007 10:41 AM, Alan Clegg <<a href="mailto:alan@clegg.com">alan@clegg.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><div class="Ih2E3d"><br>Miano, Steven M. wrote:<br>>> From: RepriSaL [mailto:<a href="mailto:IThE_MaTRiXI@gmx.net">IThE_MaTRiXI@gmx.net</a>]<br>>> How about composing above the quote? ..makes taking track much easier,
<br>>> instead of scrolling all the way down, thx a lot<br><br></div><div class="Ih2E3d">> Most people find things easier to read from the top down, not from the bottom up. On most of my technical Mailing Lists top posting is always going to be called out when you do get a reply, and bottom posting is preferred. On the gamer/server admin lists it seems top posting happens because most people are not reading all threads.
<br><br></div>If people will remember to trim their postings to only include the<br>things that they are replying to, that will help considerably.<br><br>Top posting and not trimming replies == Microsoft Outlook and AOL users.
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