Gmail Bottom Posting v3

By Damir Zekić Last update Oct 23, 2008 — Installed 430 times. Daily Installs: 2, 4, 1, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 1, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 3, 0, 2, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0, 2, 0, 3, 2, 3, 2
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Inserts the caret _after_ the quoted text when replying to emails using Gmail. Please view source for full credits.

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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?