The 02.10.13 at 19:46, Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
I'm sorry to disagree. For example, pine, which is not a windoze program, by default "top-posts".
No it doesn't. It places the cursor on top of the quoted text, but that's what Mutt and other MUA's and newsreaders let the editor do aswell.
It also places the signature two lines below the "leader" line, above the quoted text. At least, by default.
That is *not* so you can start typing at that point, it is done, so that you can start trimming off irrelevant text from that point down. Is it really that hard to do? Delete text to a piece of quoted text where you want to reply to, type your response, delete text down to the next piece of text you want to reply to etc.
That's what I usually do :-) But it takes longer, and seems to be against what is customary in most businesses: they claim that a sort answer is easier to see at the top of the message, specially when there are dozens or hundred of emails to process. Also they dislike somebody else trimiming what they said, because the exact meaning can be altered.
Ignoring the relevant RFC1855 in mailing lists and usenet posts is just plain rude and totally disrespectful of the people the you might want to get help from.
Sorry: I didn't know it was required RFC training to write here. No mention of that in the subscription form :-p Anyway, the RFC docs are no longer included with the suse distro.
For me it is very simple: topposter and bulkquoters will be ignored, period.
If it suits yourself... Me, I'm more tolerant. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson