Re: [Alpine-info] Reply Top Posting

On Wed, 26 Nov 2008, M.RossARR wrote:

> While reply top posting seems wrong, it is a common habit for most

Me too, I hate top posting (and full quoting too)
http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/Procmail/noquotenohtml.html

> Pine & Alpine offers the signature to be at the top or bottom via:
> I will assume most users set it for bottom! Makes sense!

I have it set to signature at bottom. However I might appreciate that 
somebody sets signature at top when FORWARDING correspondence :

    [writes new message at top ABOVE signature]
    signature at top
    entire forwarded message

> Yet when reply is triggered, the cursor is always found at the top
> waiting to type, so off goes the writer top posting! It's natural!

Not for me ... I consider natural to do what follows WHEN REPLYING. 
Composer starts with

    Original Addressee wrote on Date:
    >
    > message with indentation suffix
    > in its entirety
    > for many lines
    >
    signature at bottom

The what I do is

    [possible brief introduction added on top]
    Original Addressee wrote on Date:
    >
    > message with indentation suffix
    [ snipped and interspersed with my comments]
    > for not so many lines
    [ snipped and interspersed with my comments]
    signature at bottom

I.e. I start at top, go through the original message, snip the parts I'm 
not going to reply, and insert my comments to those I leave in. THIS seems 
natural to me.

> May I suggest to whoever, for a future update (I understand Pine is
> dead so Alpine), if technically possible - being software it should
> be, the cursor be programmed to start in position for reply just
> above the signature block a line or two, which would normally be at

If anybody is going to follow your suggestion, I'd modify it (in the 
spirit of pine) to be an option.

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