Re: [Evolution] Problem with reply and other stuff (OT)

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

Please stop Ccing me. I do not wish to be a part of this discussion any
longer. I have unsubscribed from the list for this very reason.

Jeff

On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 13:47, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 18:27, guenther wrote:
> > I'm not as sure as you about that point. IMHO it is violation of
> > netiquette too, to quote the whole message and *not* deleting needless
> > stuff.
>
> Oh, I agree with you wholeheartedly. That can also be helped by
> implementing the requested kmail feature of quoting only the text which
> was selected when the user hit 'Reply', and by offering 'Reply with
> quote' and 'Reply without quote' options rather than forcing the user to
> go through the configuation menus every time they want to reply
> differently, etc.
>
> > ( My personal opinion: It is even worse, to get hundreds of lines quoted
> > and a simple "that's right" at the bottom -- I can trash that mail
> > faster, if such stupid statement is at the top. Although I don't like
> > top-posting... )
>
> True. But by placing the cursor at the bottom, your naïve users actually
> _notice_ that they're quoting the entire post, and have a visual hint to
> do something about it.
>
> It's definitely not something that everyone agrees on, but I think it
> does merit being a configuration option.
-- 
Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
fejj ximian com  - www.ximian.com