Now, come now, Tony, you did not read the questions in the way they were asked, or did not read the whole e-mail string. It is not whether the cursor comes on top , on the bottom or in between, for that matter. It, however,is important for us to have control and know how to change the default settings if we desire to do so, which buttons to click to set things up the way we want to work on our individual computers,-- and if we don't know where to find the default setting in our program, then we send a note out to our friends at the MacUser group to give us some help. I believe that was the actual question ( Beth? )raised at the beginning, namely, where to find this setting in her particular e-mail program and how to change it. And Justin, who is new to the Mac, simply agreed that he had the same problem . ( I assume in his other computer the settings werde different.) We always deduce from the known to the unknown. Our premises lie with what we know and are familiar with ...... end of philosophical statement.
On Thursday, Sep 4, 2003, at 17:14 America/New_York, Tony LaFemina wrote: > Justin Meek wrote: > >> I too have this problem and would love it to be the other way around. >> I >> blows my mind that the default is not already having the new message >> at the >> top. >> >> > With all the atrocities being committed with e-mail replies, I don't > understand why this is such a problem. I believe all e-mail programs > allow you the option to put your response before or after the original > e-mail. So you have to make a change once. Big deal! I would imagine a > reply to an e-mail would naturally follow the original e-mail and > that's why the default is set the way it is. > > I'm guessing this list is no different than any other list on the > internet. Take a look at some of the letters that go back and forth. > Maybe your line of thinking would be acceptable if an e-mail only had > one question and one answer, but some of them have several responses. > So you respond at the top, and I respond at the bottom and someone > else disects each line of the e-mail and makes comments to each one. > Then there's the ones that ask a different question, starting a new > thread with the old Subject line. When you get four or more responses > to the same e-mail, it's a jumbled mess no matter how you look at it. > If anything should upset you, I think it should be something other > than a default setting. > > -- > Tony LaFemina > When you want to do more than just buy software > http://hometown.aol.com/visitmacland/index.html > mailto:remacs at optonline.net > > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta Heinzelm?nnchenk?nigin A.D. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
