On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:18 AM, Bob Sneidar <bobsnei...@iotecdigital.com>wrote:
> I agree that people should select the pertinent text to be quoted before > replying. It's just good email etiquette. It's more than "good etiquette." it's correct, and not doing it is incorrect. This is spelled out in the ancient RFC that defines email. > However, there may be an option to reverse the direction of the quoted > text to place it at the top instead of the bottom of the post. Top-quoting is not an "option," it's just plain wrong. It came about from AOL placing the cursor before the text, an abuse followed by microsoft and gmail. I filed bugs 11562493 and 11562437 in the very early days of gmail, for not instructing users on etiquette and for misplacing the cursor in the top-posting position. -- Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. (702) 508-8462 _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
