On Thu, 2008-01-31 at 11:50 +0000, Stuart Sears wrote: > Bruno Wolff III wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 10:00:42 +0200, > > Paul-Erik Törrönen <poltsi@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> It seems that the current Evolution (2.12.3) shipped by Fedora 8 _forces_ > >> one to top post (ie. write the response above the quoted message). > >> > >> There are only four different ways to configure the reply style: > >> 0 Quote original message (puts a newline and prompt on top of the message, > >> paste-relevant-part behaves identically) > > > > That is the proper way to do things. That way you work your way down through > > the message inserting replies and trimming as appropiate. If you prompt > > at the bottom, then people are encouraged to skip trimming, which is just > > about as annoying as top posting. > > Agreed. Removing the config option makes no sense though. > Prompting at the top forces the opposite approach, don't you think? > i.e. TOFU > which is actually worse than not trimming replies IMHO. > > (although top-posting has taken over the world. No, I don't want to > start a new flame war. top-posting is like marmite. You either love it > or hate it.) For me it's not a matter of hate, it's a matter of DESPISE!! -- ================================================ My father, Victor Moore (Vic) used to say: "There are two Great Sins in the world... ..the Sin of Ignorance, and the Sin of Stupidity. Only the former may be overcome." R.I.P. Dad. Linux user# 44256 Sign up at: http://counter.li.org/ http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/oar http://www.wayward4now.net <---down4now too ================================================
