Top posting solution

Mark Ovens mark at ukug.uk.freebsd.org
Wed Aug 11 04:28:23 PDT 2004


Chris wrote:

> Paul Schmehl wrote:
>> --On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:45:58 PM -0400 JJB 
>> <Barbish3 at adelphia.net> wrote:
>> 
>>> Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
>>> liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
>>> email messages on this list.
>>>
>>> The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
>>> email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
>>> indenting with a quote character.
>>>
>> Not true.  Pine doesn't.  Mulberry doesn't.  I don't believe Evolution 
>> does.  I'm pretty sure the Firefox solution (don't recall the name) 
>> doesn't.
> 
> Thunderbird gives you the option
> 

And of course OE/Outlook users could just learn to hit Ctrl-End before 
they start typing :-)

Mark




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