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: users+help@global.libreoffice.org 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