Evolution

[Leon]

Me - Atlantic <jdangler at atlantic.net> writes:

> 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?
>> 
>> -- 
>> If only me, you and dead people understand hex, 
>> how many people understand hex?
>> 
>> Alan McKinnon
>> alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
>> +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
>> 
>
> 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"...
>
> 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?
>

It is not that bad for emails. Almost everybody in my office do
this. Bottom posting could cause people to ignore your email for
example my boss only reads the first few lines.

-- 
Leon