[sclug] TopPosting Was: Helping others into FOSS/Linux

[Patrick]

The reason Microsoft and commercial email clients top post is that 
usability studies show this is how people like it.  No-one will buy 
something they don't like.  The interesting question is why a standard 
was set without doing a usability study first.

Darren Davison wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-05-03 at 21:41 +0100, Hamlesh Motah wrote:
> 
>>I must not be understanding, if its
>>such a bad practise why hasn't it formed a greater more weightier part
>>of the business community email etiquette
> 
> 
> that's fairly simple to answer.  Most people use broken software (not
> just Microsoft's either it pains me to say - Lotus' has always been as
> bad) that makes no effort to comply with either protocol or netiquette.
> As such, the people who use such software follow the path of least
> resistance which is to start typing where it places the cursor and
> assume all is well.
> 
> 
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