Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2014 22:48:37 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: RW <rwmaillists@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cloning a user Message-ID: <20140923224837.935a5721.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20140923132006.069018b4@gumby.homeunix.com> 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> <44zjdrnzw3.fsf@lowell-desk.lan> <5420F3F5.4060003@hiwaay.net> <20140923132006.069018b4@gumby.homeunix.com>
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On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 13:20:06 +0100, RW wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2014 23:15:49 -0500 > William A. Mahaffey III wrote: > > > On 09/22/14 15:50, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > > > "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> writes: > > > > > >> 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 .... > > > https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/reply-above-or-below-quoted-text > > > > > > But <ctrl>-<end> would work on any given message, anyway. > > > > > > > > > *Boooyah* !!!! Silly me, looking under preferences .... > > Some people maintain that placing the cursor at the top is the right > thing to do for bottom posting because it make it easier to trim the > original text. It has another positive effect: It makes the writer read (or at least scan) the previous content of the discussion prior to writing his own text. Additionally, a discussion thread can be separated, so it's not simply "one paragraph below the whole text", but instead answers or comments to portions of the quoted text. Starting this work at the beginning of the text seems to be easier than at the bottom. -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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