On Wed, 2008-05-28 at 18:09 -0430, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > Given that top-posting is frowned on by many list users, is it not > ironic that Evolution encourages it? I can't believe this hasn't been > raised before, but I can't find any previous discussion of it, just > plenty of complaints about top-posters.
On the contrary, we've gone round and round about this in one bug after the other. I personally think it's rather silly, but users seem quite passionate about where the cursor should go. Current consensus is that since many bottom posters still like to place a greeting at the top, we leave the cursor at the top. Also, placing the cursor at the top encourages bottom posters to use selective quoting rather than quoting the sender's entire email (or mailing list digest, as the case may be). The initial cursor position is not going to change people's habits. Top posters will continue to top post and bottom posters will continue to grumble no matter what we do. Matthew Barnes _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
