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

On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 03:38:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 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).

Related, but slightly OT:

"Did you know Firefox and Thunderbird phone home once a day, even with updates disabled and can remotely disable any addon or plugin they wish?"

http://www.reddit.com/info/6oz9u/comments/

>
> > 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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