On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 2:26 PM, thomas blomme <blommetho...@gmail.com> wrote: > 2009/4/28 Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com>: >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> On Tuesday 28 April 2009 20:39:29 Neil Bothwick wrote: >>> >>>> On Tue, 28 Apr 2009 13:03:43 -0500, William Hubbs wrote: >>>> >>>>> As a blind computer user, sometimes it is more convenient to top post, >>>>> because I don't know of a way to make my screen reading software skip >>>>> over all of the quoted material. I find it more convenient sometimes to >>>>> hear the newest material first. >>>>> >>>> That's an interesting point, and the first real justification for >>>> top-posting I've seen. Although I would have thought it should be >>>> possible to have your mailer hide quotes and the reader then skip them. >>>> >>> >>> I'm sure the regulars here will be quite happy to make an exception for the >>> few blind users we have. Just like we tolerate the BlackBerry users who >>> cannot >>> post any other way. >>> >>> As for the rest who think it's their right to ignore long-established >>> unwritten (but no less valid) codes of conduct, I just do to them the same >>> thing I do to stupid users at work who refuse to use English: >>> >>> plonk. >>> >>> >>> >> >> And there is always the blacklist as well. Once added to that, it's >> hard to get back off the list. After all, if they send them a email to >> ask to get took off, they won't get the message. o_O >> >> Dale >> >> :-) :-) >> >> > > Is there a way in gmail to put top-posting off?
Gmail does proper quoting, it just puts the cursor in the wrong place by default (but the place most users want it, I would guess). Also as Ward pointed out, there is a feature where it will quote only what you have highlighted -- a great feature that I miss from my old OS/2 email client.
