Re: Position of point in reply-with-original

[asjo@koldfront.dk (Adam Sjøgren)]

On Thu, 03 Feb 2011 18:10:49 +0100, Antoine wrote:

> There's message-cite-reply-above that does the trick, but is incredibly
> condescending by

> - insulting you for wanting the option in the first place in the
>   docstring
> - ignoring the setting in news posting
> - asking you if you're really really sure when you post

So, basically it is trying to tell you to not top-post, and helps you
not to do so in newsgroups where it is frowned upon, right?

> It seems it's pretty standard use in mail, and almost all "modern"
> clients (webmails, thunderbird, outlook and such) have this as
> default.

I just created an email-account in Thunderbird, and the default was
"[x] Automatically quote the original message when replying", Then,
"start my reply below the quote":

 * http://koldfront.dk/misc/thunderbird/reply-default.png

So it seems that Thunderbird (3.0.11) does not default to top posting.

Note the box right below, where Thunderbird recommends putting the
signature last if you choose to top-post (unlike Microsoft Outlook).

> I'm not trying to start a flamewar as to which one is better, but we
> should give the users the option.

Why?

[...]
> What do people think?

I don't understand why you wouldn't want people to jump through hoops to
do the - arguably - wrong thing? It is entirely possible to do so, but
why make it easier?


  Best regards,

    Adam

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