Re: [Pan-users] Reading an HTML posting when using 'old' Pan

[David Kelly]

On Mar 22, 2012, at 12:35 PM, Duncan wrote:

> Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 22 Mar 2012 04:00:37 -0500 as excerpted:
> 
>> While Tbird puts my cursor at the bottom of the window, more
>> and more I must manually move the cursor to the top because non-geeks
>> have been trained by Outlook and webmail to type at the top.
> 
> If I'm replying, my reply goes either inline or at the bottom, period.  
> Sometimes I rearrange or omit quotes to do it, but "if it's worth 
> replying, it's worth replying right."

Words belong in the order spoken where one leads into the next, then into the 
next for a train of thought. This reply becomes a scene in a play where Ron 
said, then Duncan said, then David said ...

Top-posted replies are a nightmare to unravel. For starters one of the better 
rules for effective communication is to keep your readers from having to work 
hard to understand what you are saying and how one got there from here. The 
less work your reader has to perform the more brain CPU cycles are available to 
understand what you are saying.

Outlook is a disease where properly formatted replies are almost impossible to 
create.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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