Peter Trudelle wrote: > 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 >
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