Thank you for the lecture, but I was looking for useful information. My personal preference is to inter-post, but I know that others have different views. If a mailing list explicitly requests that their users top or bottom post, according to you I should violate their standards? On 2016-11-28 19:43:36 Steven D'Aprano wrote: > On Mon, Nov 28, 2016 at 03:55:06PM -0600, Leslie Turriff wrote: > > Is there a way to tell kmail to do this? > > You shouldn't be bottom-posting any more than you should be top-posting. > It is extremely frustrating for your readers to have to scroll past five > or ten pages of quoted text to find a single line > > "I agree!!!" > > at the very bottom. And I'm not exaggerating, not even a little bit. > I've seen this happen, many times. If I remember correctly, the worst > case I bothered to count was *thirty-five pages*, from someone bottom- > posting on a mailing list digest. > > Interleaved, in-line posting is best for extended discussions. Top- > posting (as hated in Linux/Unix circles as it is) is good for short > replies that don't lead to a long extended discussion. But bottom- > posting is awful: it has all the disadvantages of top-posting, with none > of the advantages. > > I'm running KMail 1.9 from KDE 3.5 (gosh, that's over a decade old!), > and it defaults to quoting the replied message and putting the insertion > point | at the front of the first quoted line, something like this: > > On Monday, John Doe wrote: > |> blah blah blah blah > |> > > blah blah blah > > > > blah blah > > For in-line posting, it is the writer's responsibility to move the > insertion point to where they want to insert a comment, trimming any > old commented text which no longer relevant. Kmail cannot do that for > you: it can't tell where you want to start typing. > > If you go to the menu > > Settings > Configure KMail... > > then click the Composer icon, you may find something relevant. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
