Evolution

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Thursday 25 May 2006 17:07, Me - Atlantic wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 20:07 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 May 2006 16:55, Me - Atlantic wrote:
> > > Does anyone know of a way to get Evolution to reply using the
> > > newest message on top instead of at the bottom?  It's a bit
> > > annoying having to reply to emails all day and cutting and pasting
> > > signatures from the bottom of long threads to the top all the time.
> >
> > Stop right there and go no further :-)
> >
> > Surely you aren't asking us how to do top-posting?
> >
> > --
> > If only me, you and dead people understand hex,
> > how many people understand hex?
> >
> > Alan McKinnon
> > alan at linuxholdings dot co dot za
> > +27 82, double three seven, one nine three five
>
> Actually, no.  It's because I have so many clients that respond to
> corporate emails that way, and, when I "bottom-post", they ask me why
> the emails are replied to "backwards"...
>
> But this leads me to another question.  If top-posting is so bad, then,
> why don't *nix mail clients automatically go to the bottom of the
> message when replying?

Thunderbird does. KMail doesn't, but it drops sigs and other stuff at the 
bottom of the page that is preceded by a double-dash + space separator.

-- cmg