On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 11:23 -0400, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > 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, > > 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). Thus you are > wasting bandwidth and every other readers time. Hashing these things > with people WHO DO NOT CARE is pointless.
I disagree. I make it a point of noting (politely!) when people top-post. If no-one ever mentions it, how is the clueless newbie going to learn? OTOH a long diatribe in answer to every transgression gets old very fast. The compromise I've settled on is to keep the complaint to one line and only do it if I was going to reply anyway. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
