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On 27/06/13 16:10, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 27 Jun 2013, David Bell wrote: > >> And, seemingly, "top posts" by default! > > Email doesn't top-post, the user does. > > I've just hit 'reply' to this email and my cursor is positioned at the > top line. I could start typeing there and then, thus top-posting, or I > could trim it and hit control V to get to the end - whic I did. > > And I'm using an email program with a pedigree older than Linux. > > Gordon > No, applications do. Both gmail's web interface and Thunderbird (and I think most other mail apps currently in existence except for weirdy beardy stuff like mutt, pine or whatever you're using - can't be bothered reading the headers to find out) annoyingly default to top-posting. This behaviour is easily correctable by the user on either a case by case basis as you did or by changing the default setting within their chosen app's preferences pane/options dialogue/etc conf (which I did). Either way, top posting sucks but like the changing meaning of the word "hacker", I think we'll just have to keep this to ourselves because the rest of the world doesn't care. You should see some of the unthreaded, multi-page top posted crap I see limping it's way around MS shops with Outlook/Exchange, it's literally incomprehensible. Regards PS: your mail client doesn't do spell checking, I see :] -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq