Re: Top Posting Question

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Jonathan Allen wrote:
> Dear List,
> 
> 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?  Moreover, thunderbird appears to
> have no user options to bottom post and view emails from the bottom (or
> Usenet articles either).

Sure it does...

Accounts--->Composition and Addressing--->

Automatically quote the original message when replying...
The, start my reply below the quote...

> 
> I am trying to persuade a colleague of the evil of top-posting and he
> has just beaten me up on exactly this point - *if* the Linux community
> is to keen to discourage bottom posting, why don't the standard tools
> work that way.  I was flabbergasted to find that he was right.  Why
> doesn't thunderbird open at the bottom by default, with a user-option to
> open at the top if you really want to ?
> 
> Jonathan
> 


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