On Mon, 4 Feb 2019 21:12:15 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > >>Indeed. Some prohibit editing quoted text, deeming it a form of forgery. >>That leads to a pernicious accumulation of footers and a secular bloat of >>text. > >... For corporate >communications, top-posting isn't a bad thing: folks get added to threads, and >can then understand WTF is going on. Bottom-posting >would be a major pain in some of the customer threads I'm on, which go on for >weeks and dozens or hundreds of notes. > When I add someone to a thread, I try to quote *relevant* previous plies.
>For a mailing list, it's clearly dumb, for the reasons Gil notes. > >The sad thing is that no client seems to have figured this out, perhaps >providing a button that will flip formats. Or allowing a >marker in the address book indicating the style to use for specific >addressees. Or any number of other options. > I thought I recalled a MUA where Preferences gave the option of positioning the text input cursor at either top of bottom when replying. Today I see that in neither Mac Mail.app nor Thunderbird. Mail.app gives the option of quoting either all or only selected text. Almost needless -- I can edit ad lib. A colleague complained about my bottom-posting saying she reflexively deletes any message when she has seen the first line before. LISTSERV provides the option of showing the first line on mouseover. Would that it were the first *unquoted* line. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
