On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 10:03 -0400, John Kaufmann wrote: <snip>
> Then Microsoft introduced Outlook, with default behavior of > posting above a fully-quoted message, and top-posting soon became > "normal"; bg: Wrong on a couple of counts - I stand in awe that this is still so widely misunderstood. Outlook did not introduce the email editor default of positioning the cursor at the top - it was around well before that. And this is the Big One: the positioning at the top was *not* ever intended to cause the responder to begin their reply there - instead, the intent was to position the cursor where you could drill down through the backquote, ideally snipping out irrelevant portions, ending up at the bottom of a truncated backquote, where you would begin your reply. Logical, natural, and one would think perfectly understandable. But to two or three generations who have never apparently been schooled in why they should use their emailer's editor to trim down the previous text body, apparently a giant mystery. Brewster -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable justice low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett [email protected] Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
