The date and time was Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:13:00 PM, and on a
whim, sgopus pounded out on the keyboard:
in case you missed it, I didn't express any feelings, I stated an opinion,
different from yours. top posting works just fine for me and I accept
wherever others choose to post, without comment, top or bottom, not you! you
tend to personalize too much! "This is an opinion, not a feeling" your free
to disagree!
I don't think Bill was stating the main issue was top posting, but the
way MS clients insert a delimiter incorrectly when someone posts their
reply above the quote and then a sig below the reply.
When a proper newsreader sees a delimiter as it was designed, everything
below the delimiter is removed, which blows away all the prior content.
Delimiters are ONLY to be used when bottom posting. That was the way
it was designed. When I top post (in email), my mail client
(Thunderbird), doesn't insert a delimiter above the sig. It only
inserts the delimiter when the sig is at the bottom, which is the
correct way it should be done.
If users of MS clients used Quotefix (which resolves the bug) as Bill
mentioned, the content below a sig would remain intact.
Only one MVP I know of took the issue into consideration and changed
their posting style. As most have said here, they don't care whether
the incorrect insertion of the delimiter causes problems or not. THAT
is selfish, especially when they take it personally rather than
realizing the issue is with the mail client they use, and taking the
proper steps to correct it.
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Terry R.
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