On 12/16/2011 02:03, Jeffrey Lynn Parke Jr. wrote:
I don't really think that people put any conscious thought into if they should top or bottom post. A majority of mail clients and the aforementioned Gmail default to top posting. What I would like to know is why is this the common practice. Obviously, people on forums and mailing lists like everything in the top down, first to last format. This frustrates me. I'll have to look into that greasemonkey plugin.. I am always fighting gmail on this issue.
Ringmaster
I believe top posting is common because [average] people don't use e-mails to write/read long texts anymore, but rather for chatting. Actually, nowadays it seems natural that if there is a way people can chat through some text message system, they will. I've unfollowed a lot of people who apparently thought twitter was just another web messenger. -- Rodrigo