bottom posting with Gmail

[Colin Law]

On 30 March 2013 10:05, Felix Miata <mrmazda at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 2013-03-30 09:38 (GMT) Colin Law composed:
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>> Felix Miata wrote:
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>>> On 2013-03-30 08:05 (GMT) Colin Law composed:
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>>>> Felix Miata wrote:
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>>>>> On 2013-03-30 07:11 (GMT+0100) Gary Kirkpatrick composed:
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>>>>>> Gmail's new compose feature does not give us a way to bottom post.
>>>>>> Has
>>>>>> anyone found a solution?
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>>>>> You mean besides putting the cursor where you wish to type before you
>>>>> type?
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>>>> There speaks someone who obviously has not used the new compose
>>>> feature in gmail.
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>>> Where is this "new compose feature"? I opened Gmail, clicked a message,
>>> clicked reply, and put the cursor where I wished to type, just like in
>>> any
>>> email app that's actually competent.
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>> Click on Compose and along the top you will see a link "Try out the
>> new compose experience" or something similar.
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> I must be dense. Bottom vs. top posting relates to replying to a received
> message. A compose link should only be for creating a new message, one
> that's empty to start. How does one bottom post except in a reply? What am I
> missing?

After switching to the new mode then Reply will also use the new mode,
unless you switch back again.

Colin

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