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<div style="font-family:sans-serif"><div style="white-space:normal"><p dir="auto">And yet, AFAIK MailMate has no support for bottom-posting replies in the composer window, which is frustrating.</p>
<p dir="auto">On 8 Oct 2020, at 9:19, Charlie Clark wrote:</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#777; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px"><p dir="auto">On 8 Oct 2020, at 15:14, Martin S Taylor wrote:<br>
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<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">Indeed - sadly, I'm old enough to know that.<br>
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Are there conventions about whether one should top-post or bottom-post? I see different users here follow different guidelines.</p>
</blockquote><p dir="auto">Netiquette says: quote and bottom post.<br>
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It's weird to see "modern" mail clients trying to "solve" the problems caused by top-posting by introducing conversational views.<br>
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Quoting relevant parts of a mail show focus.<br>
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Posting below avoids the Doctor Who effect:<br>
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Doctor Who</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#999; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#999"><p dir="auto">Who's there?</p>
<blockquote style="border-left:2px solid #777; color:#BBB; margin:0 0 5px; padding-left:5px; border-left-color:#BBB"><p dir="auto">Knock, knock</p>
</blockquote></blockquote><p dir="auto">;-)</p>
</blockquote><br><p dir="auto">Glenn P. Parker<br>
glenn.parker@comcast.net</p>
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