On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 16:04 +0100, Steve Searle wrote: > Around 03:52pm on Wednesday, October 24, 2007 (UK time), Jonathan Allen scrawled: > > > 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). > > With bottom posting you want it to open at the top, as bottom posted > emails are designed to be read from top to bottom. You should be > arguing that Outlook, etc. clients should open at the bottom because > its user community tends to top post. > > Regarding composing, my view (and I've never used Thunderbird) is that > it opens at the top so you can start trimming from there, and working > down to the bits you want to reply to. > > Steve > However, when you google for e-mail etiquette you can't find a source that recommends bottom posting. I am afraid this is a peculiarity of fedora-list people. Although to my mind it makes sense. ======================================================================= After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
