Re: Place Cursor At The Top

On 5/8/08 12:56 PM, in article C4492791.E35E%mbintener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
"Michel Bintener" <mbintener@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

See here for more details:

<http://www.entourage.mvps.org/faq_topic/reply.html#reply2>


On 08/05/08 21:23, in article C448A12F.6F1E%rmnospam@xxxxxxx, "Rafael
Montserrat" <rmnospam@xxxxxxx> wrote:

OS 10.4.11
Ibook G4
1.5 GB Ram
Entourage 11.3.2

Hi,

On all my emails I want my replies to be at the top of the email. This
includes posting to newsgroups, and responding to NG posts,
I've tried the choices in Preferences>Reply and Forward, and the cursor
placement still shows up at the bottom of the message, the trail.
What do I do? Or what am I doing wrong?

Thanks, Rafael


OK, Michel. That's a good site. Here's one thing from the site I found
interesting:
"Why is top posting frowned upon on a list?
Because it reverses the logical flow of conversation."

I see that differently. I see the most recent entry logically at the top,
because that's where the conversation is happening. Present time?when I
open the email, there's the response to my most recent post.

I do agree that mixing top and bottom can be confusing, so if the norm is to
post at the bottom, then I'll do it that way.*

However, in reply to some recent posts of mine on the Word NG, I'm getting
the responses from some MVPs on the top, which, when I opened the email, I
liked, because as I said, right there is the correspondent's reply. On the
word NG see John McGhie and Cyber Taz' replies to my post subject:
<'Browse By Page' Doesn't Show The Entire Page>

Thanks, Rafael


*"Note: For lists and newsgroups, posting on top mixed with bottom posting
can make following a thread confusing especially when there are several
posts to the message."



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