The problem with bottom-posting on this server is that when I send, it is hard for some, perhaps everyone, to know where the quoted message stops and my contribution begins. If you go to the bottom of this email you will see that your contribution is not "quoted" as such, and - especially if the same font were used - you can't really tell without paying really close attention to the "--" where the exchange starts.

I recently quit Gmail because I got sick of that they read your email AND they treat users as products rather than citizens, selling your information that you freely give them without offering you anything for it. I started becoming very aware about my data when the CBC program Spark told me about Joindiaspora.com and then a cell phone concept, both concepts that give the user her data to do with what she wants.

Richard

From: "Patrick O'Callaghan" <pocallaghan@gmail.com>
To: "Community support for Fedora users" <users@lists.fedoraproject.org>
Sent: Saturday, 18 January, 2014 04:09:31
Subject: Re: email failure

On Sat, Jan 18, 2014 at 6:38 AM, g <geleem@bellsouth.net> wrote:

On 01/17/2014 08:13 PM, Richard Vickery wrote:

Hi Suvayu, and anybody else who cares - assuming that Suvayu cares -
about the issue:

This is originally how this server has set the return mail as; I can
possibly talk to the university computer people about fixing the
program so that I can have the option of bottom-post correctly,

just passing along a tidbit that i have found.

i can not say about your university server, but i do know that with
gmail and using thunderbird, i set up and account for gmail. i
download emails and reply to them with thunderbird. this way, i am
able to respond interspersed and add to bottom with out top posting
problems.

such may work with your university server.

Seeing this out of context (is there an existing thread, if so then why wasn't the reply posted there?).

I'm bottom-posting this from Gmail. Also, I don't know of any mail server that would mess with replies to the extent of enforcing top-posting. Some email *clients* do, especially on phones, but that's a different issue.

poc