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

On 06/26/08 15:20, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> I don't. TB puts my cursor at the top along with my sig.

Must be one of the differences between the Windows & *ix versions.
Or my preferences were retained as I moved from Mozilla to Tbird
(after a fling with GNOME Evolution).

> 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?

-- 
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA
"Kittens give Morbo gas.  In lighter news, the city of New New
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