On Thursday 24 June 2004 08:15 pm, Kenneth Porter wrote: > --On Friday, June 25, 2004 12:48 AM +0100 James Wilkinson > > <james@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It's encouraged by Microsoft e-mail packages putting the cursor at the > > top of a new reply, with the "Original e-mail" underneath. > > If you blindly put the cursor at the bottom, you get bottom-posting, which > is almost as bad. Some user education is required to teach them to cut all > the irrelevant stuff and to interleave responses point-by-point. > > Xnews (a nice Win32 newsreader) has the nice feature that it bitches at you > if too much of your post is quoted text. It also has a toolbar button that > skips to the next unquoted paragraph, making it easy to navigate > interleaved responses. (Are there any good Linux-based newsreaders > comparable to Xnews?) "PAN" also has this bitch feature. Try it, you'll like it. Regards, John
