Re: [Nolug] passport account? wanna download something for me?

From: Dustin Puryear <dustin_at_puryear-it.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:20:30 -0500
Message-ID: <4863FA0E.7000403@puryear-it.com>

I don't. TB puts my cursor at the top along with my sig.

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Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 06/26/08 10:23, Dustin Puryear wrote:
>> The whole top-posting vs. bottom-posting deal is a relic. Fighting for
>> or against it is not unlike trying to fight popular culture's use of the
>> term "hacker". In both cases it's a done deal, the battle is over and
>> has been since the 90's, and we should all move on. That said, a lot of
>> people still dislike top-posting and some people also dislike how the
>> term "hacker" is used, but it's something that just has to be lived with
>> now. :)
> 
> "We" were winning until gmail was made public...
> 
>> I'm a top-poster. To be honest, I find it tedious to have to scroll down
>> several pages to read someone's comments much more than just skimming
>> through a message thread easily by reading what's at the top of my
>> screen.
> 
> That's why snipping is an integral part of mid-/bottom-posting.
> 
>>         Some people disagree and feel that top-posting whacks out the
>> conversation. Either way.
> 
> Yes, it does.
> 
> Anyway, Thunderbird places the cursor at the bottom of the compose
> window, ripe and ready for bottom-posting.  Why do you spend the
> (admittedly slight) extra effort to move the cursor to the top of
> the window?
> 
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