Brewster Gillett: > > The way most emailers default in the reply edit mode is to position > > your cursor at the top of the original. The reason this is done > > is apparently, unaccountably, non-obvious to millions of the > > NetNewbies of the past several years. The reason it positions that > > way is to encourage the user to drill down through the original > > post,
Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > While all this is true, I agree completely, it is utterly pointless to > point it out. The vast vast majority of people DO NOT CARE about > netiquette (or the convenience of subsequent readers). bg: How very right you are. It's pleasant to read that there are others who fully understand. williams: > Thus you are > wasting bandwidth and every other readers time. Hashing these things > with people WHO DO NOT CARE is pointless. bg: I plead guilty, Adam - 99% of the time I just let it pass. But this was something new - when someone informed us that they had to "reconfigure" their emailer in order to alternate between top and bottom posting. I confess, that pushed me over the edge :-) I'll try not to do it again for a while...... williams: > I deal with top-posters primarily just by ignoring their > questions [if they can't respect me I shouldn't bother with them]. > That is the method I suggest. bg: That's a worthy suggestion, Adam, and I pretty much agree with you. I will observe that I have converted at least three or four formerly clueless-newbie top-posters through the means of sitting them down at a computer and demonstrating how it is intended to be done. Seeing that light bulb go on over their heads was immensely satisfying, as you might imagine :-) Brewster -- *********************************************************************** Embrace a sharing community of sustainable low-carbon diversity *********************************************************************** W. Brewster Gillett b...@fdi.us Portland, OR USA *********************************************************************** Simply because you don't like to hear it, that doesn't make it untrue. *********************************************************************** _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list