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Re: OT: Top Posting Vs. Bottom Posting: Case Closed!
de "John Jay Smith" <-> 04/24/2006 12:51
Yes but we LIKE top posting...
Shoot!
I should have posted the study about bottom posting done with the chimps!
"Helen" <@abuse.roman.gov> wrote in message
news:e%Z2g.17646$Kn4.7300@bignews2.bellsouth.net...
> »Q« wrote:
>> Ron May <mayron@hotmail.com> wrote in
>> <news:d62o42pcmbum3b3405qsjt7hi3j8nhfqpp@4ax.com>:
>>
>>> On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 11:12:15 -0500, ;Q+ <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Al Klein <rukbat@pern.invalid> wrote in
>>>> <news:an2m42dtp4c0fphg2k8u4qpvkj2v2nch1c@4ax.com>:
>>>>
>>>>> Agent also puts the cursor at the top.
>>>>
>>>> Is it at the quoted text, ready for snipping, or on a blank line
>>>> of its own above the quoted text?
>>>
>>> This is from Agent 3.3 and the cursor was to the left of the "O"
>>> in "On Sun, 23 Apr..."
>>
>> Thanks to you and to Al for the answer. I asked because it
>> occasionally comes up in news.software.readers, and there aren't
>> many Agent users there, since you have your own newsgroup.
>>
>>> I'm almost certain Outlook puts the cursor on a line of its own
>>> ABOVE the quoted text. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong.
>>
>> Yeah, it does, so the user can just start typing if s/he wants to
>> top-post.
>
>
> Buuut, all you have to do is to NOT start typing THERE, but instead
> CHOOSE to go to the end of the comment you want to respond to
> (as here for demonstration) and start typing THERE, or in the alternative,
> CHOOSE to go to t he end of the post THEN start typing.
>
> Or just click "do not include post" and then you have a blank screen in
> which to type on - without any of the OP's comments. So actually, it's
> no big deal to NOT top post when using OE.
>
>>
>> FWIW, Xnews has two modes. If there was some text highlighted before
>> hitting 'reply', only that text is quoted. In that case, the cursor
>> starts out below the quoted text, since snipping has already been
>> done. If no text is highlighted, the entire post is quoted, and the
>> cursor starts out right before the first > character.
>
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