In article , Ted Davis
wrote:


Bottom quoting, to call it what it really is, is a Microsoft invention
- pushed on users *because it is the opposite of common practice and
common sense*.

Nonsense. Both top- and bottom-posting are artifacts of not bothering
to edit quoted material. Both were being used by the lazy long before
Microsoft Explorer or Outlook or whatever it is you think is a MS plot
to encourage some particular style.

--Tim May