<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I prefer top posting unless there are direct questions in the email to be answered, then I answer them inline. I would never get bent out of shape if someone did not do it the way I liked it and I would never invoke the "microsoft way or the highway" attitude. Who cares how MS does it? I care how my customers like to see it. If they are MS fan boys, fine.<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Chris<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Jan 7, 2009, at 12:35 PM, Robert Heaven wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div> <font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">I prefer top-posting... especially at work where I receive hundreds of junk emails every day. Top posting allows me to more quickly scan the emails and more quickly identify the junk I can toss out. Then, if I need back-ground on a subject, I can scroll down.</font><br> </div> <div> <br> </div> <div> <br> </div> -----Original Message-----<br> From: Christopher Fowler <<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>><br> To: <a href="mailto:ale@ale.org">ale@ale.org</a><br> Sent: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 10:56 am<br> Subject: [ale] OT: top-posting<br> <br> <div id="AOLMsgPart_3_563cac29-a130-4da0-9bc3-2257c2eaa7c6"> Okay, <br> <br> I want to open a can of worms :)<br> <br> We have a sales-rep that sent me this response today in regards to a link I sent him that<br> top-posting is "bad".<br> <br> <br> The link I sent:<br> <br> <pre><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" target="_blank" __removedlink__1476533809__href="http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html">http://www.caliburn.nl/topposting.html</a><br>
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