Maybe this is old news but...

[Danilo Turina]

Danilo Turina wrote:
> Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Danilo Turina wrote:
>>> Igor Peshansky wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Danilo Turina wrote:
>>>>> When you read a post that is around level 5/6 you must skip a lot of
>>>>> text that you have already read in the previous posts and, of course,
>>>>> the text you are interested in (i.e. the reply of the sender of the
>>>>> post) is not immediately visibile when you open the post (you must
>>>>> scroll down and skip the above text before reaching it).
>>>>
>>>> That's what the "End" key was invented for... ;-)
>>>
>>> Probably I'm using Thunderbird in a wrong way or, worst, I'm using 
>>> the wrong tool, anyway when I use the "End" key, I'm immediately been 
>>> taken to the last mail of my inbox/last post of the group.
>>
>> Probably you are forgetting that you must click on the message pane 
>> first. :-)
>>
> 
> I didn't think about that!
> 
> No, really. I usually press "n" (on the list of messages) to go to the 
> next unread message, I read the message, then I press "n" again, and so on.
> 
> Clicking on the message pane and pressing End is slower than directly 
> using the scroll bars of the message pane.
> 
> 
> 
> This is giving to me an idea, I could write a Thunderbird add-on capable 
> of automatically scrolling the message to the first non quoted line.
> 
> 
> Better, I'll Google a bit to see if that add-on already exist (very 
> probable).
> 
> Thank you,
> 
>         Danilo
> 
> 

I just installed QuoteCollapse: it works like a charms.

Now "bottom posting" doesn't cause me any trouble.