[ale] OT: top-posting

[Jim Popovitch]

Fair enough, to each his/her own.

One other plus for me is corp messaging (IM). We have Sametime clients
for blackberry that operate over the BES (bb enterprise server) so
that internal chats are still confidential.

-Jim P.


On 2009-01-07, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>> On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 6:27 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Greg Freemyer wrote:
>>>> Jim's post reminded me.
>>>>
>>>> Did anyone bring up that the Blackberry only supports top posting.  So
>>>> as technology moves ahead we start to get sucked in.
>>> How is this the case?  Does it not let you scroll to any point of a
>>> message and edit?
>>
>> It does not.
>>
>> You have to read the email first, then click reply.
>>
>> At that point it gives you a blank white screen in which you type.
>>
>> What ever you type gets top-posted to the full original email.
>>
>> I'll reply to this from my blackberry so you can see another example.
>
> That pretty well sucks, but that is my opinion.
>
>>
>> Greg
>
>
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> Until later, Geoffrey
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