Bottom Posting Email Clients?
Matthew Clarke
mj3clark at gmail.com
Mon Apr 21 13:12:38 BST 2008
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 7:58 AM, Sridhar Dhanapalan
<sridhar at dhanapalan.com> wrote:
> A major reason for the revulsion towards top-posting is that top-posters
> usually quote absolutely everything in the thread.
>
> Bottom posting makes the most sense when people trim the text that is quoted.
> If the cursor automatically goes to the bottom, many bottom-posters will
> likely fall into the habit of not trimming quotations.
After a bit of fiddling, I can to the same conclusion. I prefer
leaving the cursor at the top as well, for the reason that you
generally need to scan through the whole quoted text anyway before
entering your reply...
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Matthew Clarke
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