philblog tells about how Mozilla Thunderbird has its default reply position at the bottom of the email.
It bugged me too. Here’s what he said about it:
Apparently replying at the bottom of an e-mail is not an acceptable practice because I seemed to have either confused, annoyed, irritated, or all three, several people by doing so. After a few e-mails and instant messages from people I figured I would check to find out if there was a way to change this. After a brief Google search I found the solution to setting the reply position on e-mails to the top instead of the bottom.
# In Thunderbird: Go to “Account Settings”
# Select “Composition & Addressing” for the account in question
# Check the checkbox in the Composition group that says “Automatically quote the original message when replying”.
# Once the combo box below is enabled select the option “Start my reply above the quote”
That did the trick. If you use Thunderbird, or are going to try it: do this!
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Thanks for posting this.
More silliness from Thunderbird developers who think their way is the only way.
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=62429
Abe, thanks for the link. Interestingly, with Gmail’s “hide quoted text” feature, this almost becomes a non-issue. It’s a feature I wish all email clients had.
Thanks for the tip! The default reply cursor and signature position was driving me mad. Sorted it now thanks to your tip.
Thanks! The Thunderbird default is precisely the wrong one. I spent quite some time looking through “Options” for this switch — I knew it was in there someplace, as I’d set it up properly on another machine, some time ago. Why they make this a per-account option is…. well, just baffling.