On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 21:50, Brad Warkentin wrote: > after the quoted text _is_ the civilized way to reply to people. This > was the one true way until Outlook appeared and broke most of the > standard conventions and decided that threaded, contextual replies were > somehow a bad thing.
Not true. Not after _all_ the quoted text, but in context, just as this sentence is a relpy to the above one. > Replying at the top of the message with the entire bloody message left > as a blob below, without bothering to trim it to just the bits, relevant > to your reply is plain evil and rude, in my obviously not so humble > opinion. Since some MUA simulations do not show mail as a threaded list, the "top posting" is a way to provide context. Curing pestilence by beating the infected person to death... In german there is a nice acronym for this: TOFU - Text oben, Fullquote unten (text on top, fullquote on bottom). ;-) Anyway, if the cursor would be on bottom of the quoted message, it would encourage people to send fullquotes, instead of weeding out the quote and answering the relevant stuff. Feature request: Warning dialogs if the user tries to send top-posted and/or fullquoted messages. Or maybe an automated version of this: http://www.kevinandkell.com/1995/kk1127.html Sorry, not trying to offend someone ;-) Eric -- "The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism." -- Paul Tomblin _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
