Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
> Butch Casserole wrote:
> [about top-posting]
>> If you can't get to grips with sorting the top posting habit, Google
>> for "OE Quotefix", that'll do it for you.
>
> That will help. Still, it cannot change the mentality of people who
> want to type while looking at the paper on the desk between their
> wrists. Yeah, that's how I see top-posting, like viewing a letter on
> my desk in front of the keyboard. and I'm writing along the top
> margin. Like I have to move my wrist to see the quote.

I know a fella who ended up with a limp wrist doing that.

>> After all, at the end of the day, it's a simple matter of Usenet
>> etiquette which IMHO is gradually being eroded today.
>
> ..on or about the time Outlook Express added news support, I believe.

Probably, I can nay remember that far back