Re: [Alpine-info] Reply Top Posting

Sorry for you I am. Difficult it is I find reading your post. Upside down 
it is. X-Authentication-Warning, chris.i8u.org: htodd owned process doing 
-bs really.  A better mailer get soon. Making it readable for you I 
am.

Dave

David Forrest                     e-mail   [email protected]
Maple Park Development Corporation  http://www.maplepark.com
St. Louis, Missouri

On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Hisashi T Fujinaka wrote:

> I am doing what I like, top-posting, which is what you need to do if you
> run Outlook (a requirement at work). Threading is very poor on Outlook,
> and the stupid gui takes up a lot of screen real-estate. So you need to
> do two things that really annoy UNIX users and which used to really
> annoy me:
>
> One, top post, so you can see what the most recent reply is.
>
> Two, leave the entire thread because you're never going to be able to
> find the previous emails because of the broken threading (and the volume
> of email I get.)
>
> Also, you curse the "clever" people who leave comments inline because
> Outlook displays things incorrectly.
>
> I work for a large company and finding another job is non-trivial, so
> there are reasons I've had to modify my behaviors and now I just wonder
> why there still are people who have the time to complain about
> top-posting.
>
> On Thu, 27 Nov 2008, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
>
>> 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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