On Wed, 2 Jul 2025 11:12:49 -0400, Richard Aiken wrote:

>I think the recent propensity for top posting is an artifact of writing
>posts on smart phones rather than full-size keyboards. I find it
>*extremely* tedious to attempt to delete what I'm not directly responding
>to using only the TINY keyboard on the phone. I'm just to fumble-fingered
>to manage it without getting very frustrated. Given the apparent general
>age range of TML members, I suspect that I am not alone in that. :)

No, it goes back to early email/news clients built by companies that were
so big that they felt that they didn't have to conform to conventions
established by mere _users_, and that this nifty new "HTML" stuff would
really jazz up email.

Thank you, Microsoft, AOL, and GoogleMail.

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