Re: [gentoo-user] [OT:netiquete] was AUTO: Martin...

[Daniel Barkalow <barkalow@iabervon.org>]

On Tue, 28 Apr 2009, thomas blomme wrote:

> Is there a way in gmail to put top-posting off?

I think Gmail (and alpine) pretty much do the right thing (except for 
sticking in some blank lines at the beginning). It's best to put the 
cursor at the top so that you can trim what you're quoting down to the 
relevant parts and insert responses inline in order. If it put the cursor 
at the bottom, you'd have to jump to the top, only reply at the end 
(which nobody likes, since it means there's a ton of quoted text that 
you're not really responding to sitting in your message), or write your 
reply backwards moving up.

The issue, in my opinion, isn't starting at the top, it's failing to end 
at the bottom.

	-Daniel
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