Re: Thunderbird

From: Howard J. Rogers <hjr_at_dizwell.com>
Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 07:24:08 +1100
Message-ID: <41acd6e8$0$24380$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.au>

Niall Litchfield wrote:
> "Frank van Bortel" <fvanbortel_at_netscape.net> wrote in message
> news:cohaic$lpf$1_at_news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl...
>

>>Niall Litchfield wrote:
>>[snip!]
>>
>>>The culture I had in mind was email replies, especially in Outlook 
>>>enabled environments ( something like 80% of corporate environments). 
>>>These invariably top post (and don't cut: and don't edit, and don't 
>>>spell...~)
>>>
>>
>>Easy to fix, just like in T'bird, Netscape, Opera, whatever.
>>It's in the options menu, somewhere (sorry, I try to keep my
>>own machines as MS clean as possible: no Outlook here...)
>>It's just the default that is top-posting.

>
>
> I don't think that it is a bad default *for email*, I also don't think it
> wrong to imagine that usenet might have a similar set of social conventions
> as email. I *do* think that it is *as* bad to imagine that social
> conventions are *rules* as it is to ignore conventions when they are pointed
> out.

All true (though I'm still intrigued about the idea of top-posting in email being OK).

> BTW I cannot find anyway to make either OutlookXP or OutlookExpress 6
> default to bottom posting. it certainly isn't in the options menu somewhere,
> at least in the sense of somewhere accessible.

No, I don't think it's there either. I mostly gave up on using signatures completely in OE, precisely because it always slammed it in the top, and I was forever having to cut-and-paste it down the bottom... it hardly seemed worthy of the name 'automation'!! Maybe there's a registry hack of some sort?

As a small plug for Thunderbird, it bottom-posts by default. It's a very, very nice tool indeed.

Regards
HJR Received on Tue Nov 30 2004 - 14:24:08 CST