Problem!

[Duncan Lithgow]

Billy Pollifrone wrote:
> Thinking a little more on the subject... Linux is supposedly about 
> freedom. Does that not extend to the point that someone has the 
> freedom to use any application in whatever manner they choose to 
> without the inference that they are stupid for doing so? I thought we 
> are supposed to respect the way others do things and not contend that 
> they are inferior because they choose to or just happen to do things 
> differently than ourselves. 
That's too much of an over simplification I think. Why is Linux 
possible? Because a large number of application developers are willing 
to conform to the structures needed for the apps to run on Linux. If 
they all just did it their own way - we'd need a plethora of different 
OS's just to run different software. The point? Conforming to a norm/ 
standard (bottom posting was a default standard) provides predictability 
and continuity. Without a good reason to be non-conformist it's best to 
stick with what works.

But in the case of email there should be easy technical fixes in mail 
clients to scroll up and down any quoted text.

Duncan