[ale] OT: top-posting

Greg Freemyer greg.freemyer at gmail.com
Wed Jan 7 19:25:40 EST 2009


On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 7:14 PM, 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.

My customers all have blackberries (there all lawyers) so it works
fine for business emails.

I don't do much mailing list sending stuff with it because of the
top-posting issue.

OTOH, I often pick it up in the morning and delete the nightly mailing
list stuff as I have my first cup of coffee.

I find it very efficient at letting me quickly read an email and
delete it.  Not as good as a real email client, but way better than
using the gmail web interface on a handheld.  And I don't like to sit
in front of a PC first thing in the morning.

The main reason is it pre-downloads the the first 100 lines or so of
each email, so when you click on a email to read, it just pops up.
With the gmail web interface, you get a delay as the content of the
email is downloaded.  Those seconds add up.

Greg
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