[Python-Dev] Top-posting on this list

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 1:26 PM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:
>
>> Trimming can be a PITA if you're using a crummy MUA
>
> How so? It merely requires the ability to navigate up and down by lines,
> and to select and delete text. I've used some very crummy MUAs, but the
> ability to trim quoted text has never been absent or difficult. Are
> there MUAs so crummy that this is a PITA, yet still used by any
> significant portion of email users?

You just can't do it on some mobile device mail clients. For instance
Gmail's client on Android.
It will just top-post and quote the whole mail for you AFAIK.

Tarek