William Morrison wrote:
Phillip Jones wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Phillip Jones wrote:
Kurt wrote:
When I reply to an email, the text cursor is way down at the bottom of
the email. I believe all my contacts that use Microsoft email and have
grown accustomed to replies being at the beginning of the email will
be confounded by replies at the end of the email. When I jump up to
begin the reply it takes on the font of the "So and So wrote" line,
which is Times New Roman and terrible for online viewing.
It is a small annoyance, but I would like to start my response at the
top of the page instead of starting to write at the bottom and then
cutting and pasting it to the top. Any way to make Seamonkey change
this behavior?
Seamonkey also seems backwards in that by default it lists emails in
the box from oldest to newest.
Go to each individual email box in Edit> Mail& newsgroup setting
choose Composition& Addressing them click on button start reply at
bottom. and choose start reply at top.
Note: here in this group you will booed - hissed at, chastised, cursed,
and flogged to do , what is known as top posting. It frowned upon
here.
But if your _contacts_ are use to Top Posting then by all means set as
you desire.
People know my opinion on Top posting and I won't go into it further.
I had a client write me in January after I had interspersed my
respective replies after each paragraph of his message:
"I always wanted to ask you to write your response above my message and
not mix with my original text. It takes me a long time to read your
response and often I just give up."
It bleeping blew me away. I thought I was doing him a favor by putting
each answer with the corresponding question.
And you did notice this part above .
"I always wanted to ask you to *write your response above my message* and
*not mix with my original text*. It takes me a long time to read your
response and often I just give up."
Yet everyone here extols the virtues of bottom posting. Your supposed
to post especially in emails to what the receiver is accustomed to.
Not your ridged guidelines as what is prim& proper.
If you get a message from a person either personal or business and
they bottom post, post bottom post. If you get said message and they
put replies to you at top, then they demand top post. You grit your
teeth and Top post. Better to use their method and gain their
business, rather than go by some silly posting guideline and lose a
$20,000 job. Your person just has the chutzpa to speak up and say how
they want things. I am sure there are others out the.
I've been on mailing lists or groups or whatever you want to call them
for nearly 20 years now and have found some like this one that request
bottom posting as well as others that request top posting and have run
into times especially when the sender gives a list of numbered questions
that doing like Paul suggested works best so your answering line item
questions with line item answers. But what irritates me the most is when
a list/group imposes a dictatorship to the point of threatening to ban
someone that occasionally screws up and posts in a manner not according
to their demands. I guess it just the freethinking spirit of the
internet that makes me feel this way. Personally I like the top posting
because if you've been following the thread it is easier to read the
subject of an email then read that persons response to that subject and
go on to the next posting. If you haven't been following the thread then
you can read the original posting below the answer if the list/group
hasn't also demanded that all posts be trimmed of all but the answer to
the original posting and if you don't then the moderators do it and add
a nasty little reminder about it to your post, sort of mail tampering.
You have no arguments with me. Most guidelines as far as posting were
started back during Bulletin Board days simply because some people
started that way and it go etched in stone, then its difficult those
people understand not everyone thinks that way.
I use to tilt at windmills her trying explain the logic of using top
Posting. But I decided it was a waste of effort and a lost cause.
Because every time I tried to win anyone over, I was all but tarred and
feathered. Other things in my life have become more important to me.
--
Phillip M. Jones, C.E.T. "If it's Fixed, Don't Break it"
http://www.phillipmjones.net http://www.vpea.org
mailto:pjon...@kimbanet.com
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