[TriLUG] Digression: Top- vs Bottom-posting

[Rick DeNatale]

On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:07:03 -0400, Brian Henning
<brian at strutmasters.com> wrote:
> > imagine about 2000 lines of inline-quoted text here
> 
> The only problem with encouraging bottom-posting to the typical user is the
> lack of good snipping habits..  I'd rather work backwards through a message
> if I felt the need to review the conversation than have to scroll for an
> hour before getting to the actual reply..  Which I would bet is part of the
> driving force behind whomever first thought of top-posting..
> 
> Keep in mind I'm talking about the *typical* user, not the *educated*
> [TriLUG member] user. (-:

But then again, with a Gmail like interface, it would be possible to
collapse quoted text (perhaps with a length threshold) by default.