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...
-- 
Matthew Clarke



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