Walt Davidson wrote:
On Tue, 30 Nov 2004 07:27:01 -0800, Bill Turner
wrote:

Then why does the most-used email program in the world default to top
posting? Please don't answer with an anti-Microsoft rant. I really
want your evaluation of the question.

This question has been answered many times.

Microsoft Outlook places the cursor at the top of the quoted text to
enable the respondent to work his way down through the text, inserting
his replies at the appropriate points AFTER the original text, and
trimming all superfluous quoted material.

I thought that was fairly obvious.

You are giving both MS and its users way too much credit in the thinking
department.

"It's the default setting" is the one and only correct answer to the question.

Peter Lemken
DF5JT
Berlin

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