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Date:      Thu, 11 Jun 2020 08:15:04 -0400
From:      Aryeh Friedman <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>
To:        Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.dev>
Cc:        FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: freebsd vs. netbsd
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On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 8:03 AM Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.dev> wrote:

> Ralf Mardorf via freebsd-questions wrote:
> > On Thu, 11 Jun 2020 06:49:47 -0400, Aryeh Friedman wrote:
> >> As to the comment of how common top posting is or not almost every web
> >> based MUA defaults to it
> >
> > Could you mention a few FLOSS BSD or Linux MUAs that by default sets
> > the cursor above the quoted text?
>
> FWIW, Thunderbird does that by default in new accounts, you have to
> configure it to do otherwise.
>

So does every other GUI/web MUA.   I don't know why it is so hard for the
FreeBSD community to get that conventions have changed (for better or worse
I don't know but they have).  I have even had people complain about not
top-posting because "I can't find your reply" and thus almost the entire
world (except for a few technical mailing lists) either accepts or
encourages top-posting.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15648928
https://www.quora.com/Why-do-the-masses-utilize-the-top-posting-style-in-email-replies
https://www.jefftk.com/p/abandoning-bottom-posting

-- 
Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org



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