Hi all, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 00:08 -0400, Matthew Barnes wrote: >> 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. > > I don't know what your personal preference is, but if like me you find > yourself first deleting the extra line Evo introduces at the top, and > then scrolling to the bottom for *every single reply you type* all I can > say is that it quickly becomes very irritating indeed. > >> 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). > > Very unconvincing I'm afraid. In my experience bottom posters are > already more likely to quote selectively. What about encouraging the > top-posters to do it as well, given that so few of them seem to do it?
For what it's worth, I top post the "Hi (all/fred/others)", then go on to selectively quote. If I'm feeling exceptionally lazy or have had a bad day, or am replying in kind to a top poster, I'll just top post (with vengeance!) >> 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. > > On the contrary. IMHO placing the cursor at the bottom is quite likely > to change at least some people's habits. However this is beside the > point. I'm not trying to make everyone to do it my way, which is why I'm > proposing to make it an option. It would seem on the surface to be an > extremely trivial feature to add. Thunderbird gives three (!) options, 1) reply above quote, 2) reply under quote or, 3) select the quote. Why are these or a similar option not available in Evolution? Cheers, -- Greg Vickers Phone: +61 7 3138 6902 IT Security Engineer & Project Manager Queensland University of Technology, CRICOS No. 00213J _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
