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

On 06/26/08 20:07, Petri Laihonen wrote:
> Ron,
>
> It does not work! I'm now completely winblows free.... (Even wife's
> computer doesn't have winblows anymore....)
> And my Thunderbird still puts the cursor to the top of the e-mail for
> replies.

Old habits die hard. A simple configuration change, though, will
tell Tbird to put the cursor where it belongs...

> An exception though...... When I receive e-mail sent from Outslurp,
> sometimes the cursor goes to the bottom, but then I have to move it
> manually to the top, because the entire e-mail thread is organized that
> way and all the recipients would just get confused by sudden switch.
>
> As a matter of fact, I only find bottom postings occasionally on the lug
> list posts. All others are always top-posts.....
>
> Sometimes inline posting is most convenient. For example in the cases
> where there are multiple questions in the e-mails one is answering to.

Bottom-posting is an edge case of middle-posting.

> Actually, let's create a new standard. Let's utilize all posting methods
> at once....
>
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A possibility. But the data/CRLF ratio would be a lot higher, and
waste much bandwidth.

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