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).
Top posting isn't evil, it's just frequently misused. Top posting is
appropriate when you need to say something brief about the posting as a
whole, rather than any part of it, such that people will be able to
better choose to read the rest of the post or not.
Example:
O.P. said UE4831, he actually has the UE4821, an obsolete revision
not available in the US.
or
Known error in the chipset, details below.
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 ?
They do... you just have your tools configured wrong. Most tools have an
option to quote the original text and reply below. And possibly compress
quote material and add a sig, depending on the tool.
--
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
