Top Posting Question

[John Summerfield]

Norman Gaywood wrote:
> On 10/25/07, Jonathan Allen <jonathan at barumtrading.co.uk> wrote:
>> Given that the preference on this list is trimming and
>> bottom/mid-posting, and that Thunderbird is one of the principle mail
>> agents used in the Fedora and Linux world, why does it always open
>> incoming emails at the top, and compose new emails with the cursor at
>> the top immediately ready to top-post?
> 
> The cursor should be at the top so that it is easier to trim the
> original message. Bottom posting and not trimming is more annoying to
> me than top posting.

One of the nice things about kmail is that one can choose the text to 
include, then click "reply," and only the selected text is quoted.

One can then, as I recall (I don't use kmail these days) make further 
text, then click "quote."



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