Netiquette - bottom posting - outdated?

[Roger Bell_West]

On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 11:30:46AM +0100, Mark Rogers wrote:
>It was Outlook that
>(from memory) decided pretty unilaterally that top posting was the way
>to go

The ancestor of Outlook, an internal messaging system written as a
competitor to Novell's system and bought in by Microsoft, did this
because its back-end mail store (which became Exchange) was too
unreliable to assume users would have access to earlier messages. When
Outlook was turned into an Internet-facing product and hurriedly
bodged to follow (some) Internet standards, this decision wasn't
changed.

R