[MlMt] Replies above or below

[Jeff Holland]

Jacques (26.11.2013) :

> Interesting that in the Preferences of MM, this change doesn't portray 
> itself in a new Reply.

I think the setting you are looking for is Signatures > "Default 
signature/caret placement", which I believe defaults to "Bottom". This 
will control the caret placement even if you aren't using a signature at 
all. Change it to "Top" if you prefer top-posted replies.

> PS - I agree, it's better formatted below. But the standard out there 
> in email clients everywhere is above. So as others reply and the 
> conversation continues - it gets very messy when the folks in a 
> conversation are using different standards.

Without dwelling too much on the fact that the "standard" is 
ill-conceived, I agree that a mixture of top-posted and bottom-posted 
replies quickly becomes confusing. That's why I generally find it best 
to only quote text from the most recent message when replying (as I have 
done here), rather than preserving all replies since the thread began. I 
already have those earlier messages if I need to refer back to them for 
some reason, right?