On 08/06/2011 23:13, Timo Sirainen wrote:
(And while I'm complaining .. I hate just as much the bottom posts with everything quoted than top posts. At least with top posts I see what people are saying, but with bottom posts I have to scroll pagefuls of old text to see it. Try to put something new into the first pageful of the screen..)
:-)
For some reason this always seems to be a massive bone of contention to a whole load of people! Largely those who prefer one way over the other don't seem to recognise that the other bunch also have a valid reason for their preference and the religious wars continue...
However! I found a useful plugin for Thunderbird (which I see you don't use, but still). It's called Quote Collapse and basically it does what you might imagine, the indented bits of messages get collapsed to just their first line (for context) and you get a +/- button to expand if you need to read the rest of the context. Personally for me this makes bottom posting readable in general and top posting is fine, and my preference then becomes "interleaved" because it looks quite pretty with the collapsed quoting...
Actually, email clients also get religious, but despite it's other deficiencies I find Thunderbird with the following plugins helpful:
- Country Lookup - shows which country the email was sent from (great for customer support)
- Display Mail User Agent - shows the mail client used (great for customer support)
- Quote Collapse (as above)
- Coloured Diffs - pretty printing for code diffs found in emails
- Sieve - Minimal sieve rule editing
Perhaps this is enough to tempt you from Mac Mail?
Cheers
Ed W