Michel,

the fact of the matter is, when you touch a key in the reply window, you are taken to the bottom of the quoted message. This is incovenient, and leads to replies at the bottom of the message. If instead there were inserted two lines of text at the top of the reply, and the cursor were by default placed at the top of those two lines, then that would be the natural place to put replies.

Is there an option in the interface so that tabbing doesn't take one out of the reply window?

Is there a way to resize the reply window so that there isn't a double-scroll effect -- much of the time the message scrolls out of sight, and the outer scroll bar has to be used to find where the text is.

To say that the other system doesn't have the same features and can't be compared is nonsense: of course you can compare, and you can take good features and use them here. You could, for example, replace the big message tree on top with the map of the current thread, at the user option. You could, for example, make the space-occupying banner for names and pictures reducible to 1 line of text. You could, for example, make the division between upper and lower halves of the screen into a splitter, that is, make it adjustable. You could, e.g., make the map into a frame which is on the left of the msg window, for those with the space to do so (I use 1024 and there is lots of room to put a message thread map on the left or right of the message).

Hank



>>I find the message reply style, in which the new message gets appended to the bottom of the messages, to be time-comsuming and inconvenient: the part I want to read is below the screen and I need to scroll it up. Wouldn't it make more sense to have the default reply be at the top of the message, so it could be quickly read?
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>This is the user's decision. He or she decide where to put their reply. Also, a reply might be divided in parts where it is within different sections of the previous message.
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