A plea to the persistent top posters.

jdow jdow at earthlink.net
Tue Sep 23 19:56:15 UTC 2003


Of course, being anal retentive about top and bottom posting is a
real mark of a non-geel. Um, it DOES say you're in sales down there.

{^_-}
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom "spot" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com>


> On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:50, Christopher A. Williams wrote:
> 
> > Of note, the default setting in Ximian Evolution is for top-posting.
> > Anyone know how to change the default for that?
> 
> I've been using Evolution for quite some time now, and while it does
> place the cursor at the top of the email by default, it is trivial to
> scroll the reply down and type at the bottom. Like I'm doing right now.
> 
> Its a courtesy thing. Its the difference between holding the door for
> that extra second, and letting it go immediately so it hits the person
> behind you. Sure, you can argue that the door should be smart and auto
> sense the presence of that second person and hold itself open, but is it
> really that hard to just hold it open for an extra second?
> 
> ~spot
> ---
> Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa(a)redhat*com> LCA, RHCE 
> Red Hat Sales Engineer || Aurora SPARC Linux Project Leader





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