90391 - Autoscroll to "new" part of message when opening a forwarded/replied message

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 35930

(SeaMonkey :: MailNews: Message Display, enhancement)

Description

[Peter Lairo]

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:0.9.2+) Gecko/20010710

Pref to autoscroll to "new" part of message when opening a forwarded/replied
message.

One topic of great discussion is whether top or bottom posting is better. Also
whether to allow the sig to be immediately below the top posted response. 

Many persons like to post responses to mails and newsthreads above the quoted
text because it is quicker to read when opening messages (you don't have to
scroll to the bottom). However, this causes a great deal of confusion when some
people post replies on the bottom and other on the top.

The advantage of top posting (quick access to the newest info) could be
completely eliminated if Mozilla had a pref to automatically jump to the
non-quoted portion (i.e. the new post) of the message. This would be soooo cool.

It might be quite difficult to do this well because posts with many replies
might have a lot of funky formatting (e.g., setions that "look" like the newest
response, but are not).

If this were implemented semi-reliably, I think i would stop top posting.

Comment 1

[Peter Lairo]

oops

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 35930 ***

Comment 2

[Ben Bucksch (:BenB)]

vrfy,

> The advantage of top posting (quick access to the newest info)

BTW: Bottom quoting assumes that you cut the qoute to the minimum, in which case
the scrolling is a lesser problem.