Hi, On Thu, 19 Oct 2006, Eliot Blennerhassett wrote:
> Derek Smithies wrote amongst other things: > > It has been argued that top posting is a microsoftish thing - because > > microsoft mail apps open the email at the top, which is the bit you read > > first... > > Hi Derek, are you implying that there is an email client that > automatically scrolls so that the new (unquoted) content is visible? > I'm interested! > Gack - no - apologies - that is not what I meant. Most gui mail interfaces I have seen open the email up in a new window, with the top pane showing the sender/subject etc. The bottom pane shows the first part of the email. Now, if top posting has been used, this email_gui is showing exactly the bit you want to see. Now, some email_guis can be configured to show the last part of the email in the bottom pane. But the default, and this is true for MS apps, is to show the first part of the email in the bottom pane. > I don't care about top vs bottom posting, but I DO want to be able to > see the essence of what is being added to the conversation without > having to manually scroll each email. (In my case this means starting at > line number < 30) > > As far as resolving the issue goes, its clear that there isn't agreement > on a common posting format. So lets leave it as a matter of taste. > Exactly... Derek. -- Derek Smithies Ph.D. IndraNet Technologies Ltd. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ph +64 3 365 6485 Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/
