Top Posting Question

[Jonathan Allen <jonathan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear List,

Given that the preference on this list is trimming and 
bottom/mid-posting, and that Thunderbird is one of the principle mail 
agents used in the Fedora and Linux world, why does it always open 
incoming emails at the top, and compose new emails with the cursor at 
the top immediately ready to top-post?  Moreover, thunderbird appears to 
have no user options to bottom post and view emails from the bottom (or 
Usenet articles either).

I am trying to persuade a colleague of the evil of top-posting and he 
has just beaten me up on exactly this point - *if* the Linux community 
is to keen to discourage bottom posting, why don't the standard tools 
work that way.  I was flabbergasted to find that he was right.  Why 
doesn't thunderbird open at the bottom by default, with a user-option to 
open at the top if you really want to ?

Jonathan