Reply at the top or reply at the bottom?

[David Both]

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On 04/22/2017 11:15 AM, Anita Graves wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> I prefer replies on top. Sequence chronologically bottom to top.
>
> Hope we will all agree on something so it will be easier to follow the conversation.
>
> Anita
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On 22 Apr 2017, at 17:51, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> It amazes me how so many people use inferior browser-based webmail instead of standalone e-mail clients, especially with regards to Gmail or their ISP provided accounts.
>>
>> You can use any mail client you like with most any mail service. I would think cases where you could not would be extreme corner cases and if I found myself in such a situation would likely make it the first order of business to dump that mail service for a better one.
>>
>> You can certainly use Thunderbird (or Apple Mail, Al(pine), Geary, Claws, Sylpheed, even yes—Outlook) with Gmail and many other IMAP or POP based email services. (which is to say, ALL e-mail services) You are not limited to their web interface or their mobile apps.
>>
>> While this issue does expose limitations of webmail and mobile app-based interfaces, both of those are notorious for hiding features that are easier to discover in standalone applications. What you want to do might very well be possible but you’ll have to hunt for how to do it.
>>
>> As for where you should reply, I switched about 10 years ago from bottom reply to top reply because I found it silly to have to scroll through an entire conversation to get to the next reply. I didn’t know Outlook had this as a default (I was using Thunderbird) and now I see Thunderbird as well as Apple Mail now have this as the default as well.
>>
>> Concerning inline replies, I think that depends on the nature of the discussion, but more particularly of the reply. If the reply is a point by point answer or refutation, especially if several questions were asked, and definitely if they were presented in a numbered or bulleted list, then inline is the appropriate method, otherwise, general replies, like the one you are reading now, do not need to be inline and placing them there could be harder to read.
>>
>> -Adrien
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>>> Message: 4
>>> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 08:15:10 -0500
>>> From: David Carlson <david.carlson.417 at gmail.com>
>>> To: "gnucash-user at gnucash.org" <gnucash-user at gnucash.org>
>>> Subject: Reply at the top or reply at the bottom?
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>>> I do not have an answer to this question, so I am asking for others' views.
>>>
>>> Long ago (before GMail) it was pretty standard to reply to emails at the
>>> bottom and various email clients like Thunderbird handled threads very
>>> well, allowing readers to read messages in chronological order.
>>>
>>> Now, in GMail, which has an annoying habit of 'hiding' all the text below
>>> the first white space, a reply at the bottom may not even be visible when
>>> reading a 'new' reply.
>>>
>>> To make matters worse, the Android email client sorts in reverse
>>> chronological order so the newest is at the top, but if replies are at the
>>> bottom, it eventually becomes impossible to decipher what order messages
>>> were posted in.
>>>
>>> If some posters take the time to clip the history out of replies, the
>>> context gets lost so overly simple replies like "Yes" or "No" become
>>> meaningless.
>>>
>>> Based on this, is there (1) an email client that keeps all this straight
>>> and (2) has the preferred placement for replies changed?
>>>
>>> David C
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