OT: How do I change to not be a top poster?

No, it doesn't do it for me. But if I start UNDER the message in question I just have to cut out what I don't want to reply to and only respond to the snipped part underneath.

With Outlook, starting on the top, my signature is already on the top of what I want to respond to. In that case I have to cut what I want to respond to from the bottom, bring it up to the top and then go back down and delete the extra (to help save bandwidth for others). Lots more steps.

Netscape (or another that starts you UNDER the post) just comes up ready to go in another place...by ready to go I mean, inserts my signature so I don't have to move it around.

I think this might be one of those things that is just a quirk for me and doesn't really matter to anyone else. :o)

I don't care whether someone is a top poster or a bottom poster. I'm least fond of inline. Tough to read. But I'm more interested in WHAT they have to say, instead of WHERE they say it.

I prefer top posting. It's quicker to read. I don't have to scroll to the bottom to find out what a person has to add to the discussion.

I prefer my money in the register face up. The direction of the face is not important. I hate when I open a roll of quarters and find a foreign coin. I treat it as a quarter but I know that it'll show up again in the tip basket no matter how many times I give it back out! O:-)

Ray

JoAnn Paules wrote:

Yeah, and it's easier on my poor worn out mouse hand that way. ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Hee hee...but you just bottom posted. ;o)

You know, I KNEW someone was going to point that out! hee hee (I'll bottom post if it's a tiny post and I know most can see it without scrolling) (like this one!) ~~ Sooz To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. ~~Joseph Chilton Pearce

Ok, you hit the nail on the head. THAT is what I want to do. Have the short portion I want to respond to on the top, my response and then my signature. The just simply delete the other stuff. That way, like you said, not a lot of scrolling! If I can just figure out what I did wrong with the signature part of Netscape, I'd be set.

No, it really bothered me too, and I ended up switching newsreaders in order to resolve it. My problem went in the opposite direction; I wanted to top-post, and my newsreader didn't have an option that automatically pasted my sig to the top.

-Kalera

LOL! And the times they are a-changin' Diana

AOL's "offline message boards" method is-- first (top) is anything you highlight in the post to which you are replying, then whatever you write-- or you can move your quoted bit down first, and post on top if you want, I suppose. Or intersperse by hitting return after a bit, typing, return then the rest of the quote, etc.

Any sig line gets added in the "sending" process. You don't see it until your post gets to the board. Kaytee "Simplexities" on

Now THAT I like! I can't believe I'm saying that about aol. ::sigh::

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from "Lori Greenberg" :

]I think this might be one of those things that is just a quirk for me and ]doesn't really matter to anyone else. :o)

i understand your problem - but i wouldn't use Outlook on a bet, so i can't help. nor do i put my information into a browser. it's too easy for some sites to steal that information.

i use Agent. and it always puts the signature at the bottom.

vj found this in rec.crafts.beads, from snipped-for-privacy@aol.comnospam (Kaytee) :

]Any sig line gets added in the "sending" process. You don't see it until your ]post gets to the board.

that's the way Agent works.

Then you would like Forte Agent's newsreader too!

Yes, the one thing that is missing from the newsreader I have now is that it lacks a setting to quote only the selected portion of the original message... and if you don't highlight anything, you quote nothing at all. That way you don't have the problem I run in to all too often, of forgetting to remove excess quoted text before I hit "send".

-Kalera