Maybe this is old news but...

Danilo Turina danilo.turina@alcatel.it
Thu Dec 14 08:15:00 GMT 2006


Igor Peshansky wrote:
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Danilo Turina wrote:
> 
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>> ...I just saw this:
>>>
>>> http://learn.to/quote/
>>>
>>> IMO, the use of the "to" domain is cute and the web page itself is
>>> nicely done.
>> Nice page, thank you.
>>
>> Anyway, IMHO, writing after the quote is not always the best way to go.
>> That is, it's the best way to go if the reader is reading only the last
>> mail of the thread and wants to know all the context of the discussion,
>> but if one, as I usually do, reads a thread starting from the first
>> post, it's a bit awful, since you have something like this:
>> [snip examples]
>>
>> When you read a post that is around level 5/6 you must skip a lot of
>> text that you have already read in the previous posts and, of course,
>> the text you are interested in (i.e. the reply of the sender of the
>> post) is not immediately visibile when you open the post (you must
>> scroll down and skip the above text before reaching it).
> 
> That's what the "End" key was invented for... ;-)
> 	Igor

Probably I'm using Thunderbird in a wrong way or, worst, I'm using the 
wrong tool, anyway when I use the "End" key, I'm immediately been taken 
to the last mail of my inbox/last post of the group.

Ciao,

		Danilo



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