[plug] Top posting?

[Craig Ringer]

Steve Boak wrote:

> Surely having to move the cursor down a couple of lines to the appropriate 
> spot to insert your response is not too hard, and it takes very little time.

After all, you'll be editing the quoted text down first usually, won't you?

As for the whole top post/bottom-post thing: I prefer bottom posting 
with nicely trimmed quoted text most of the time. I don't like top 
posting in mailing lists, but in private communications it's often 
appropriate (though it amazes me the number of people who don't trim the 
quoted text).

As for the screen reader issue - I'm astonished that they don't have an 
easy to use feature to optionally skip quoted text in email. James notes 
that mutt can do similar things, so it's obviously not that hard.

I do wish more mail clients could collapse quoted text, as it'd help
shut this debate up once and for all.

Overall, IMHO, it's just not that big a deal.

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Craig Ringer