Jonathan Allen wrote: > 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). Sure it does... Accounts--->Composition and Addressing---> Automatically quote the original message when replying... The, start my reply below the quote... > > 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 > -- Isn't this my STOP?!
