Gmail Bottom Posting v3

By Damir Zekić Last update Oct 23, 2008 — Installed 2,993 times.

Script Summary: Inserts the caret _after_ the quoted text when replying to emails using Gmail. Please view source for full credits.



The common knowledge is that Gmail doesn't play well with email replies:

  • It makes users top-post by default, which is generally frowned upon;
  • Signatures in quoted messages don't get removed as they are supposed to

This script addresses these two problems in both plain and rich-text editor by removing a signature from quoted message and setting caret after the quoted message.

This script is based on scripts by two previous authors (hence v3):

Updates
  • 2008-10-23 Fixed a bug where script does not work in case when reply starts with "2008/10/23 John Smith <john.smith@gmail.com>"

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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?