Leslie Viljoen wrote:
> People should also realize that Outlook makes proper bottom posting so
> tiresome that even the most ardent will soon give in and just
> top-post.

I can usually force myself to follow the conventions the other person 
started. If there's anything more confusing than top-posting, it's when 
you get two people stubborn (or inperceptive) enough to use different 
styles.

More vexing in Outlook is the (maybe default only?) lack of properly 
quoting previous messages. This makes more complex discussions at work 
very, very annoying since there's no simple to let you differentiate 
between quoted text and your reply if you decide to inline replies to 
specific questions after them instead of just replying to a confusing 
tangled barrage of questions with a confusing tangled barrage of spam. 
Of course, you could use a different text colour, but that way lies madness.

People that don't delete irrelevant passages from quotes text considered 
stabworthy too.

David Vallner

PS: I wonder if Terry Pratchett's Mrs. Cake character was a direct 
reference to this practice...