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From: weedpacket@varteg.nz (Morgan)

On 2026-04-04 05:32, Saki Takamachi wrote:
>> Sorry my bad. PHP convention is a bit different from the mail client 
>> default. I will improve, but habits take a while to break, so I can't 
>> promise this is the last one :) 
> 
> No worries, I make that kind of mistake all the time too :)
> 

Back in the early days of email, replying after the thing being replied 
to was the convention: when replying, the body of the email would be 
quoted and the cursor would be placed on the line following. Users would 
edit and trim, and follow quoted sections with their replies to those 
sections.

When Microsoft Outlook came out, the cursor was placed at the _top_, 
before the quoted email. The thinking was that people would go through 
the quoted text, editing as they went and putting their replies after 
the bits they were replying to, until they got to the bottom.

No-one who used Microsoft Outlook did that. They just hit "Reply" and 
started typing.

And that's how that habit started.

This has been your diversionary history lesson of the day.