Cloning a user

[William A. Mahaffey III]

On 09/22/14 15:51, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:30:46 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> On 09/22/14 15:11, Polytropon wrote:
>>> And allow me a polite note regarding the answering policy
>>> (or "common suggestion") of this list:
>>>
>>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>>> A: Top-posting.
>>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>>>
>>> I see you're using Thunderbird - it's perfectly able to
>>> properly quote, trim, and answer.
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I quite agree about top posting, however I am unable to locate where to
>> adjust that in my T-bird (thunderbird-31.1.0_1, FBSD 9.3) .... any
>> pointers :-) .... TIA ....
> Have e-mail clients significantly changed in the last years?
> Even though I prefer a client much more simple than Thunderbird,
> isn't it possible to:
>
> (a) type after the quoted original,
> (b) edit the quoted original (trim text),
> (c) split the quoted original by some newlines, enter own text,
>      and continue,
> (d) change the view from "rich text" (or however this specific
>      presentation is called) to "normal text" (where you can see
>      the quotation indentation "> ")?
>
> I only use TB very occassionally (whenever I cannot avoid it),
> but I think this is still possible. By the way, Sylpheed (the
> MUA I'm using) also starts with the cursor at the top of the
> quoted original, but that doesn't stop me from adding my text
> "manually" at the end. :-)

That's what I was doing, but someone else pointed me to how to get TB to 
behave :-) ....


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