On 2011-09-09, Ken Springer wrote: > On 9/9/11 2:40 PM, Andrew Douglas Pitonyak wrote: >> On 09/08/2011 10:42 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: >>> On 09/08/2011 04:33 PM, Tom Davies wrote: >>>> This list should allow people to use what they are familiar with >>>> rather than try >>>> to alienate new users surely? >>> >>> I dont agree with you. >> >> There are many nuances as to why sometimes top posting is a better >> choice, but, because this is really a personal preference that I >> frequently see turn into a mean-spirited flame war, I won't bother to >> enumerate them here and now. >> >> Are you aware of any email software that can be configured to easily >> deal with bottom posting (ie, when you hit reply, it places the cursor >> at the bottom of the message rather than the top, and, while reading the >> email, it skips the repeated top content and places the view screen >> beginning at the first new content)? >> >> I always figured that I should top AND bottom post. You decide if that >> is so that everyone will be happy, or no one will be happy :-) >> > > Thunderbird will start your reply at the bottom. And I've seen others > with this option also. But I've never seen any email program that > will go simply to the new content. I'm not sure it would even be > possible, as a lot of where the new content in would depend on what > the writer/poster did.
I guess some programs will have an option to "collapse" quoted text. I suggest searching in addons.mozilla.org for a thunderbird extension that does that (I thought QuoteColors did it, but apparently it doesn't). Other clients will do a pretty good job, like Claws-Mail, but I don't know about collapsing quoted text. As for Gnus, either it does have some way to collapse quoted text or you hack it so that it does. -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
