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Posted by Michelle Steiner on 09/27/25 11:36
In article <424hdkF1gvfv7U1@individual.net>,
Paul Sture <paul.sture@decus.ch> wrote:
> >>>Yes, but Thunderbird *can* be configured to place the insertion
> >>>point at the bottom.
> >>
> >>I wouldn't like that as a standard setting, putting the cursor at
> >>the top is an invitation to strip out the irrelevant quoted text.
> >>Bottom posting without trimming is worse than top posting for me.
> >
> >
> > If you select text before replying, will it quote only the selected
> > text?
> >
>
> Just tried that, and as you can see it still quotes the lot.
Ah, that's a design failure of the program. Many (most?) newsreaders
and email programs will quote only the selected text (or all the text if
none is selected). That helps a lot with bottom posting.
Interlinear posting can be handled by quoting the entire range of text
to be replied to, and then inserting the replies in appropriate
points--deleting unnecessary portions of the quoted text. Or by
selecting the first part, and subsequently copying and pasting (paste as
quote--usually command/control (depending on OS)-hyphen--the remaining
portions.
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