Morten Nilsen wrote: David Hallowell wrote: > My main argument against it is that it ruins readability, reading a > top posted thread is more difficult anyway, never mind adding a huge > corporate sig before the quoted text.
> I agree wholehartedly... I despise badly quoted messages, and don't > think it does anyone any good to encourage it. > > I personally think mozilla should display the guideline to quoting > properly to all new users (don't remember the url) :) > And so should all the mailnews apps of the world too really :) <reversing my quoting default to do the 'right thing' in this context ;-) > This is a religious issue, one that I don't see being settled by thinking that one side is right and the other wrong. The pref accounts for vastly differing hordes of users who have strong preference for quoting the way they want. The fact that we have only a single pref for this is limiting, since there there is no standard that covers corporate email AND Usenet articles. This is a case where our blurring the distinction between them falls down. When we addressed this in Comm 4.5, I suggested the third choice - select the quoted text, so that a single cursor key would put you above or below it, equally ready for either convention, or for deleting it. I can only hope that many of the most vocal users could be satisfied with separate mail/news prefs that had an appropriate default. Peter
