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Robert Klep
QuoteFix is a plug-in for Apple Mail which enables "bottom-posting": instead of replying above a message (as Apple Mail does by default), it will place the cursor below the original message when you reply to, or forward, a message.
Other features include:
Other features include:
- removing the senders signature from the reply
- customized attributions (including HTML and templating)
- and generally cleaning up replies/forwards so your messages will look good, clean and spiffy
What's New
Version 2.5.3:
- Support for OS X 10.9.2
Requirements
Intel, OS X 10.8 or later
Intel, OS X 10.8 or later
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QuoteFix is a plug-in for Apple Mail which enables "bottom-posting": instead of replying above a message (as Apple Mail does by default), it will place the cursor below the original message when you reply to, or forward, a message.
Other features include:
Other features include:
- removing the senders signature from the reply
- customized attributions (including HTML and templating)
- and generally cleaning up replies/forwards so your messages will look good, clean and spiffy
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Snowlprd reviewed on 11 Nov 2013
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If I'm using it normally and bottom-posting, it's fine, but if I override it to top-post, my signature stays at the bottom. And if I turn on Mail's option to place the signature above the quoted text, then QuoteFix is unable to move either the cursor or the signature to the bottom.
While I prefer bottom-posting, there are times when it is necessary and/or more appropriate to top-post, and it's frustrating having manually move my signature from the bottom in those cases.
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Email signatures are almost always redundant and distracting.
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Snowlprd: I could go point by point and explain all the reasons that your comment was unhelpful and irrelevant. But since I really don't care whether you agree with me or not, I won't waste the time. Suffice it to say that your failure to see a context in which a signature is helpful has zero bearing on my reasons for using one.
Maccampus reviewed on 30 Oct 2013
However when will you update to Maverick & bring an official supported version ?
Which versions of QuoteFix work for Tiger, Leopard, SnowLeopard, Lion & MountainLion ? Reading the download Page on GoogleCode doesn't clarify this & you haven't got a History on your Plugin, it would be nice to know which versionsi exactly need for supporting users of older OS X versions.
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Andrew K reviewed on 04 Nov 2012
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If you know what a dial-up Bulletin Board System (BBS) is and have used one, you probably prefer bottom-posting.
If you fondly remember something called the ARPAnet -- which was created by federal, military, and scientific institutions, not for-profit corporations -- you probably prefer bottom-posting.
If hearing the names "Archie" and "Veronica" makes you think of something other than cartoon characters, you probably prefer bottom-posting.
If when you think of "The Matrix", you think of a book instead of a movie, you probably prefer bottom-posting.
I could go on, but my basic point is, I think the explanation for one's preference is at least partly generational.
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What's wrong with top posting?
I think that one's preference for posting style is based upon whether one's practical or scholastic education involved learning how to write in an incisive, analytical and logical manner. While not universally the case, I find that top posters too often lack those skills in the first place. Many of those meet all the "criteria" you suggest for preferring bottom posting (which BTW is a markedly inaccurate term).
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Mplem reviewed on 06 Dec 2011
You must answer first, then chose your signature.
(And sorry for my English !)
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Alderete reviewed on 06 Nov 2011
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This especially makes more sense if you, like me, tend to not include the entire original message (because, like Thoiz_vd says, who's interested in reading what they wrote themselves?), but just highlight the portion to which you want to respond. Together with the Mail preference "Include selected text, if any; otherwise include all text" this makes for clean, concise and to-the-point replies.
By the way: bottom-posting can be turned off, in case any other features of the plug-in might be of interest :-)
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Why is "top posting" perverse?
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
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That's funny but your example is NOT a result which top-posting produces. Top-posting does not rearrange every line of text neither does it remove quotation level marks/colors.
Top-posting vs. bottom-posting is just a matter of personal preference, not a matter of right vs. wrong.
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One of the reasons why top-posting is bad is that the people who use it don't actually use the included text for anything. They pretty much have their email clients set to include original text and then forget about it. IMHO they might as well not include it at all, because all it does is increase email sizes unnecessarily. Correct use of bottom-posting involves breaking up the original text, deleting what is unnecessary to include, and replying to the rest point by point. In essence, each point becomes its own mini-thread, and there is absolutely no confusion about each one's logical flow. It also allows for a more oral-conversational approach to correspondence, because you no longer have to restate what was in the original email in order to make clear what you are replying to.
That said, I'm not entirely sure what this app is for. Mail still puts signatures below included text, which is what's most important. Where the cursor is when I begin a reply is unimportant when I'm going to be breaking up the included text from the top down, then inserting my replies in between the pieces. Also, forwarding is different from replying in that the included text is left intact for the recipient to read, in which case top-posting is usually preferred (by me at least).
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Any ideas?
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Makes it easier for me to track it :-)
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Ilyeah rated on 21 Sep 2012
Jean-Jacques Cortes rated on 06 Nov 2011