Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:17:09 -0500 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning a user Message-ID: <5420F445.6060502@hiwaay.net> In-Reply-To: <20140922225144.328031d4.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <54206EFE.2020300@comcast.net> <64800696-2AB1-4B0E-9C17-D76AE07880BE@mac.com> <5420760C.5000901@comcast.net> <20140922221138.cb34493e.freebsd@edvax.de> <542086F6.7080807@hiwaay.net> <20140922225144.328031d4.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On 09/22/14 15:51, Polytropon wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 15:30:46 -0500, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:
>> On 09/22/14 15:11, Polytropon wrote:
>>> And allow me a polite note regarding the answering policy
>>> (or "common suggestion") of this list:
>>>
>>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>>> A: Top-posting.
>>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
>>>
>>> I see you're using Thunderbird - it's perfectly able to
>>> properly quote, trim, and answer.
>>>
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>
>>
>> I quite agree about top posting, however I am unable to locate where to
>> adjust that in my T-bird (thunderbird-31.1.0_1, FBSD 9.3) .... any
>> pointers :-) .... TIA ....
> Have e-mail clients significantly changed in the last years?
> Even though I prefer a client much more simple than Thunderbird,
> isn't it possible to:
>
> (a) type after the quoted original,
> (b) edit the quoted original (trim text),
> (c) split the quoted original by some newlines, enter own text,
> and continue,
> (d) change the view from "rich text" (or however this specific
> presentation is called) to "normal text" (where you can see
> the quotation indentation "> ")?
>
> I only use TB very occassionally (whenever I cannot avoid it),
> but I think this is still possible. By the way, Sylpheed (the
> MUA I'm using) also starts with the cursor at the top of the
> quoted original, but that doesn't stop me from adding my text
> "manually" at the end. :-)
That's what I was doing, but someone else pointed me to how to get TB to
behave :-) ....
--
William A. Mahaffey III
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