[Gllug] here we go again... (was: Light weight GUI for Linux)

[Christopher Hunter]

On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 12:37 +0100, Peter Corlett wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 12:26:54PM +0100, Alain Williams wrote:
> [...]
> > a) the idiots a microsoft who wrote MS Outlook put the cursor there when
> > you hit 'reply'.
> 
> Top-posting because that's where the cursor happens to be is like crapping
> in your pants because that's where your arse happens to be.

Thanks for quoting me (on a BBS from about 1989, as I recall)!  I really
should have copyrighted it...

> My MUA also puts the cursor at the top of the file. That's so I can scroll
> down and actually *read* the message while I'm editing. Top-posting almost
> implies that you didn't bother to read the message before firing off a
> response, which is rather rude.

EXACTLY!

C.

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