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From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To: Tom Connolly <tomc@cqg.com>
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Subject: Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)
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On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 17:09:29 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote:
> >>> Top posting is generally frowned-upon.  People who indulge in it are
> >>> shown to be Microsoft Outlook users, because that is the default of
> >>> Outlook.
> 
> There is a nice little tool for Outlook users, created by Dominik Jain, that
> will modify
> An MS Outlook message to allow for "correct quoting".  Just hit forward,
> reply or reply all
> And the tool does the rest...
> 
> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

We've seen the results of this tool in the recent past.  They weren't
convincing.

Are you aware that your message was formatted with long/short lines?

Greg
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