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

No, bottom-posting is the default.

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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).
> 
>> 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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