Evolution

[Alan McKinnon]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 23:07, Me - Atlantic wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 20:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 May 2006 16:55, Me - Atlantic wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a way to get Evolution to reply using the
> > > newest message on top instead of at the bottom?  It's a bit
> > > annoying having to reply to emails all day and cutting and
> > > pasting signatures from the bottom of long threads to the top
> > > all the time.
> >
> > Stop right there and go no further :-)
> >
> > Surely you aren't asking us how to do top-posting?

[snip sig]

> Actually, no.  It's because I have so many clients that respond to
> corporate emails that way, and, when I "bottom-post", they ask me
> why the emails are replied to "backwards"...

ye gods I hate that. I used to try and explain why top posting is evil 
and give example conversations. Few of them got it so I gave up. 
After a while I realized corporate folks use email like IM and have 
real-time conversations on email. Top posting works when it's person 
to person, and you are expecting a reply and still have the first 
post in short term memory.

> But this leads me to another question.  If top-posting is so bad,
> then, why don't *nix mail clients automatically go to the bottom of
> the message when replying?

The cursor has to go somewhere. The client has no idea where you 
intend to enter your text, and you may want to in-line your reply. So 
there's no correct place to put the cursor and right at the beginning 
is easiest. At least kmail doesn't add three blank lines at the 
beginning just inviting a top post.

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how many people understand hex?

Alan McKinnon
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