Re: French translation of LOSI

On 1/7/2008 3:30 AM, Darrin Roenfanz wrote:
> Why does my friggin Thunderbird always put my reply at the bottom? Why 
> should I make people reading my email scroll all the way down to see wut 
> I writ. Anywho ...

Please excuse the tone of this response in advance.  I've had a bad day, 
so I'm not in a great mood to begin with, and you've touched upon one of 
my long-time annoyances.

If you trimmed your quotes, that wouldn't be an issue.  How far did you 
have to scroll down to read my reply?  Traditionally, replies go below 
the quote because that is the order in which English is read - left to 
right and then top to bottom.  Quoting an entire message to write a 
reply to one sentence at the top is a waste of space (we all got the 
original email, and if there's a group archive, it's there too), and it 
breaks the flow of the conversation.  When it's done repeatedly, it's 
even worse: go to the bottom, scroll up to the top of the message, read 
down to the bottom, scroll back up to the top of the next message, read 
down, scroll up, read down...

Unfortunately, netiquette is pretty much a "dead art."  Actions that 
would have gotten a person booted from a FidoNet Echomail conference 
after a couple warnings are commonplace these days and even accepted. 
Granted, bandwidth is nowhere near as limited as it was then, and 
transferring data is nowhere near as expensive as it was then, but there 
are still the "human considerations."  A natural flow of text makes it 
easier to follow a conversation (especially for someone who is not 
involved in it).  Trimming your quotes saves a person time reading the 
prior emails to figure out what aspect of them you're referring to. 
Trimming your quotes also makes like a LOT easier for people who 
subscribe to email lists in digest mode and have to scroll past your 
message to get to the next one.

If you insist on top-posting and lazily leaving your quotes untrimmed, 
as someone else said, the configuration option is in Tools->Account 
Settings->(Account name)->Composition & Addressing. :)

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