227249 - Request for enhancement of top/bottom posting

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(MailNews Core :: Composition, enhancement)

Description

[Robert Gault]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007

Would it be possible to make the top/bottom posting selection specific to a
newsgroup rather than a news server or e-mail account? It is inconvenient to
have to manually change this when accessing groups on a server like
netnews.att.net. There are thousands of groups probably split 50/50 regards
top/bottom posting.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Felix Miata]

All you need do to have the other behavior is to move your cursor from where you
have it default to the other end. How hard is that? Top posting shouldn't even
be allowed anyway.

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Robert Gault, as a workaround, you can create two different news accounts which 
each refer to the same server; in one account you can subscribe to the 
top-post-convention groups, in another account to the bottom-post-convention 
groups, and then set the preference at the account level.

I think it's very unlikely that any sorts of preferences like this will be moved 
down to the individual newsgroup level, as there currently are *no* preferences 
that are newsgroup-specific; that would be a fairly major restructuring for not 
very much gain.

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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