On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 07:53:34 -0500 Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 2007-10-25 at 07:09 +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > Aaron Konstam wrote: > > > 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. > > > > really? I googled "email advice." > > first hit: > > http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php > > Searching I did not find the word top or bottom at this web site. Or, more importantly: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1855 -- Best regards, Chris Registerd Linux user number 448639
