Nope . . .I highlighted the text below and hit reply . . .and the insertion point was at the top. I guess with a limited quote one could easily scroll down . . .but just typing at the insertion point results in top posting (unless there's some preference I missed but I didn't see one when I looked) . . .the iPhone does exactly the same thing. Same results if I just hit reply with nothing highlighted. As I said though . . .I've never understood the fervor some people have for this . . .I can keep up with threads either way and personally would rather not have to scroll all the way to the bottom to see the new stuff. All this "you're supposed to put your text at the bottom" is just personal preference. I googled it and while there are articles claiming that it's intuitively obvious that top posting is bad and that usenet rules require bottom posting . . .there really aren't any rules other than what a particular list/group admin enforces . . .and there are just as many urls that claim top posting is better and that (since Mail and iPhone do it by default) . . .just deal with it.
On Feb 4, 2010, at 8:54 PM, Randal L. Schwartz wrote: > No, you misunderstand Mail. Mail puts you near the top so that you'll > go THROUGH the quoted material and TRIM it. Same way previous tools did. > > You're still supposed to put your text at the bottom. ----------------------------------------------- There are only three kinds of stress; your basic nuclear stress, cooking stress, and A$$hole stress. The key to their relationship is Jello. neil _______________________________________________ MacOSX-admin mailing list [email protected] http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/macosx-admin
