Friends,
Sharing my thought(s) regarding "top-posting". May eventually succeed in allowing more of us to indulge in more of "lime and gin on a beach" (or say just lime-juice for the teetotalers).
Given : top posting is inefficient and not desirable
Assumption : there will always be people who * do not know this * do not understand this (see PS to this mail) * blame it on the the tools and devices they use
Question to ourselves : Is it possible (i.e technically possible) to design some kind software module that can be developed as a plug-in for existing list-manager-software. The existing/current/recent archives of the list would be a sort of backend-reference database for this software module. The module would use some available lexical- parsing engines and/or its own logic as a backbone. The module would parse, edit and/or re-arrange incoming mail trails so that they are suitably trimmed (of legacy mail trails) and re-sequenced to comply with the very desirable bottom-posting convention.
Anyone looking for an useful project in our LUG world ? ;-) Then this is food-for-thought (and action) :-)
If many of us feel this is viable or plausible, I believe it may just be the most sustainable approach to crack this top-posting issue, and quickly go back for more "Lime and gin on a beach".
Thanks for your time. VK
PS. Saw this somewhere on the net (cant remember now). Kept a copy to help explain to the newbies... top-posting A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? bottom-posting Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? A: Top-posting. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.