The 2004-03-07 at 07:00 -0600, Kelly Fulks wrote:
Here I disagree. I tried this in KMail and in Pine and both by default set me up to top post a reply.
No, Pine doesn't. For one thing, you can choose where to automatically place the signature: | [ Reply Preferences ] | ... | [X] signature-at-bottom But it always puts the cursor at top. Why, for a bottom post? Because you are supposed to delete everything from the OP, except the sentences strictly necesary to get the context: and it is easier to kill (^K) lines are you read from top to bottom. I'm sure kmail is designed similarly. Remember, for bottom posting you are supposed to trim the quoted text. For top posting you don't, you leave the original intact - except that on a list it is better to trim and conserve resources. Why? Because not every body has a big bandwidth, and downloading mail costs money to many. It's senseless to broadcast the same text once and on every reply on the same thread. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson