top and bottom posting

[Avi Greenbury]

On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:10:08 +0100
R Kimber <richardkimber at btinternet.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 14:28:44 +0100
> Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> > > The GMail client on Android won't let you bottom-post, so far as
> > > I can work out. It provides a text box into which to put your
> > > response, to which the quoted text is appended.
>  
> > Thats pretty piss poor. Someone who actually use these things
> > should complain to google.
> 
> I'm guessing they do it that way because most companies (certainly the
> ones I've dealt with) do it that way, not because they design the
> stuff poorly, but because they have a different approach to
> information. 

I think this *is* designed badly, though. The ability to post inline
was something I thought so ubiquitous and harmless that there's no need
to check a prospective mail client supports it.
Top posting by default I can understand and live with, but the
inability to even move the cursor? That just feels so wrong.

As I say, I can understand the desire and practice of top-posting, but
I can't understand the desire to remove the ability to do anything else.

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