<quote name="Bryan Sant" date="Fri, 17 Sep 2010 at 11:02 -0600"> > > I never bought this causility argument. Even Mutt starts you at the top > > of the email. Truth is, you DO start at the top, even when trimming, > > because you go through the whole email, top to bottom, keeping context > > or snipping it out, until you're done with the message and have > > responded to everything you feel relevant to respond to. No, it's not > > simply because the cursor starts at the top. Maybe the problem is the > > editor. Vim sure makes it super easy to trim things. ;) And even makes > > it easy to wrap at 72 characters, as was mentioned elsewhere. > > Yes, but most mail clients do some form of "quoting" on the original > text, give you some white space at the top, AND place your cursor up > there. The software is BEGGING me to top post. So, it's no surprise > that people choose the path of least resistance (or do what the > computer is prompting me to do) and top post... And so far, I haven't > noticed any organizations fail due to their lack of bottom posting > adoption. Are top posters savages? Of course they are, but who > cares. Que Sera, Sera.
Again, Mutt w/ VIm will quote the entire message, place it in your reply email, and stick the cursor at the top. Yet you'd be hard pressed to find a mutt user that doesn't trim. Von Fugal -- Government is a disease that masquerades as its own cure -- Robert Lefevre /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
