Re: [Evolution] composing mail: cursor position

[Eric Schaefer <eric gixgax de>]

On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 21:50, Brad Warkentin wrote:
> after the quoted text _is_ the civilized way to reply to people. This
> was the one true way until Outlook appeared and broke most of the
> standard conventions and decided that threaded, contextual replies were
> somehow a bad thing.

Not true. Not after _all_ the quoted text, but in context, just as this
sentence is a relpy to the above one.

> Replying at the top of the message with the entire bloody message left
> as a blob below, without bothering to trim it to just the bits, relevant
> to your reply is plain evil and rude, in my obviously not so humble
> opinion.

Since some MUA simulations do not show mail as a threaded list, the "top
posting" is a way to provide context. Curing pestilence by beating the
infected person to death...
In german there is a nice acronym for this: TOFU - Text oben, Fullquote
unten (text on top, fullquote on bottom).
;-)

Anyway, if the cursor would be on bottom of the quoted message, it would
encourage people to send fullquotes, instead of weeding out the quote
and answering the relevant stuff.

Feature request: Warning dialogs if the user tries to send top-posted
and/or fullquoted messages. Or maybe an automated version of this:
http://www.kevinandkell.com/1995/kk1127.html

Sorry, not trying to offend someone ;-)

Eric
-- 
"The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then
hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog
and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just
extremism."     -- Paul Tomblin