Re: gmail

[Bruno Haible]

[Slightly off-topic, but anyway.]

Mike Fulton wrote:
> > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> >
> is there a way to get gmail to change it's default 😁

In gmail as a web application, you can't avoid top-posting without
manual effort [1].

But you can choose another mail user agent (program) for the same email
provider, thanks to

  * a standardized protocol (IMAP) that allows you to access your data,
  * Free Software programs for doing email: Evolution [2], Thunderbird [3],
    KMail [4][5], and several others.

More on this topic in general: [6]

Bruno

[1] https://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/18660/
[2] 
https://help.gnome.org/users/evolution/stable/mail-access-gmail-imap-account.html.en
[3] https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/thunderbird-and-gmail
[4] https://userbase.kde.org/Working_with_GMail
[5] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2oKX_dFzWM
[6] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html