Posted by Paul Sture on 11/16/71 11:36

Michelle Steiner wrote:
> 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.
>>>>

<snip>

>>>
>>>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.

Not the only one :-(

> 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.
>

Yes, OS X Mail does that. Although I'll add that it sometimes gets
confused as to what is my text and tries to put > in front of it. In the
worst cases, I copy and paste into a text editor, then back.

> 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.
>

It's bit of a pain with Thunderbird because I have hit Reply and then
select and delete stuff I want to chop. Mind you, better than the X11
version of Mozilla I tried a few years ago; that was, ahem, temperamental.

As someone else observed in this thread, Thunderbird is broken in
several (many?) areas. The Windies email & newsreader I was using from
1995 onwards was the best I've come across, though I reluctantly
abandoned it when the level of online attacks on Windows got so great
that I took those boxes offline.

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