Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:12:19 -0400 From: Danny <nocmonkey@gmail.com> To: barbish3@adelphia.net Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Top posting solution Message-ID: <addc34c60408110712270fd69a@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKENLGIAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKENLGIAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:45:58 -0400, JJB <barbish3@adelphia.net> wrote: > Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard > liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the > email messages on this list. > > The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix > email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while > indenting with a quote character. > > Top posting came along when MS/Windows came on the market with their > own email clients: Outlook express which is the email client built > into Internet explorer and the MS/Office Outlook email client. > > There is a little known fix for MS/Outlook express and MS/Office > Outlook email clients that change the behavior of these MS/Windows > email clients so they adhere to the Unix email format of posting the > reply to the bottom of the email while indenting with a quote > character. > > Information and fix download can be found at these URLs. > > MS/Outlook express > http://home.cs.tum.edu/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ > > MS/Office Outlook > http://home.cs.tum.edu/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ > > To all you Unix hard liners, Please instead of complaining to the > top posters, it would be so much nicer if you just informed the > MS/Windows top poster of the above links so they know about the > solution to fix their email clients to adhere to the Unix email > format used on this list. Geez this is tough to ask cause it has nothing to do with FreeBSD, but has anyone tried this (Outlook-quotefix) with Outlook 2003 in an Exchange (2000 or 2003 envrionment)? For the record, I love FreeBSD and utilize it's power throughout a company which is mainly MS (not my choice right now) boxen. :) ...D
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