On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 09:15, D. D. Brierton wrote: > On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 14:50, Frank Pineau wrote: > > > FWIW, I prefer to bottom-post. I've been trying to get the Evolution > > developers to at least make an option for top or bottom-posting instead > > of dropping the cursor at the beginning of the "On Thursday..." line in > > replies. I mean, most modern mailers can tell what text is quoted and > > what text is your auto-added sig. It's really a pain to have to keep > > juggling the cursor around just to post a reply. At least in Ev, it's > > frequently *much* easier and faster to simply hit "Reply | Enter (for > > LF) | Up-arrow" then start typing your message. > > But Evolution's behaviour as is encourages best practise for both > posting methods: in Corporate environments where top-posting is the norm > the quoted text is never normally cropped; on mailing lists where > bottom-posting is the norm the responder is also encouraged to edit out > all but the relevant parts of the quoted text, interspersing the reply > with the quoted text. Evolution, by placing the cursor at the top of the > quoted text, encourages you to go through that text, editing out what > isn't relevant to your response, and placing your responses directly > beneath the bits you are replying to. I personally hope the Evolution > developers do not choose to change this (and having been on the > Evolution mailing list for years I am fairly certain they won't). > > Best, Darren > I, too, like the way Evolution does it, but with Novell now owning Evolution we have no idea what they will do.
