Subj : t vs b posting
To   : August Abolins
From : Carlos Navarro
Date : Wed Nov 20 2024 21:45:12

August Abolins -> Wilfred van Velzen:
    
 AA>  WvV> So it can be done on a phone too! So I stand by my proposition: Just
 AA>  WvV> lazyness. ;-)

 AA> Have YOU tried it on a phone? 

 AA>>> If I recognize that someone has top-posted, I just look over
 AA>>> the bottom/quoted part for the essentials and skip the rest
 AA>>> like the extra taglines and origin lines.  Easy to do.

 AA>  WvV> Maybe easy to do, but also more effort on your part. So the lazyness
 AA> of  WvV> others makes your effort to understand a message harder! ;-)

 AA> Even "cleaning up" a message with Aftershock on a BlackBerry is bit
 AA> tedious. I'd almost rather top-post and leave the stuff below as-is. 

Yes, indeed it is tedious...

But, at least in Aftershock, I find it easier to move to the bottom of the message and type my reply there, than top-posting.

I hope that some day its developer can improve quoting removal. Maybe something like in HotdogEd...

Carlos
    
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