On Mon, 2014-01-13 at 11:25 -0500, George Reeke wrote: > Re: Evolution 2.32.3 on RedHat RHEL 6.5 (64-bit). > Everything works fine except I notice when I open a reply window, > the cursor sits at the upper left of the window as it should > (for top-reply used with everything but these lists), <snip>
bg: The reason that almost every email program places the cursor at the beginning of the backquote is probably one of the most widely misunderstood phenomena on the Net. It is placed there because the idea is to allow the replier to scroll down through the backquote, snipping out everything but the couple-three lines relevant to their reply, then launching their reply *below* that. But generations of newer users of email have assumed, wrongly, that it is encouraging them to simply begin their reply, ignoring the backquote, and that is how we ended up with the ugly travesty that is top-posting. Brewster (user of email since 1981) -- *********************************************************************** A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett [email protected] Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list [email protected] To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
