The common practice these days is top-posting, which is the default
behavior in every mail client I have ever used (often, the only supported
behavior), and I have never seen a client that one can set to top- or
bottom-post on a per-recipient basis. Whenever I use a web-mail client that
automatically folds up quoted text in a message, it never folds up anything
if bottom-posting was used.

Also, most mail clients support viewing messages in thread order, and
reading bottom-posted messages as a continuous thread is even more of a
pain than reading a top-posted message using the 1971-vintage Unix mail
client.

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August Schwerdfeger
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On Fri, Oct 15, 2021 at 8:21 PM Andrew Greig <[email protected]> wrote:

> Michael Raider is correct, and for clarity this was on the thread "problem
> installing darktable".
>
> Thunderbird does not have any way to set the default reply to the bottom
> of the thread, so there is some work involved to bottom post. I used to use
> Evolution as my mail client and I don't remember when I stopped using it.
> It did have a box to check for bottom posting. It is a pain to have the
> full conversation in each successive email.
>
> This is not a "hill to die on" for me, I merely took up Patrick's comments
> but it would work better if we all, as a list, declared the convention to
> be followed and stuck to it. Especially trimming the thread to the last two
> or three contributions.
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