From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 19 15:21:26 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 800AE16A404 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:21:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from shrike.submonkey.net (cpc3-cdif2-0-0-cust64.cdif.cable.ntl.com [81.106.128.65]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3282813C455 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:21:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ceri@submonkey.net) Received: from ceri by shrike.submonkey.net with local (Exim 4.66 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1H7vYS-0009Zm-Q3; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:21:24 +0000 Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:21:24 +0000 From: Ceri Davies To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey Message-ID: <20070119152124.GE25249@submonkey.net> References: <04E232FDCD9FBE43857F7066CAD3C0F1267327@svmailmel.bytecraft.internal> <20070118231254.GA5405@wantadilla.lemis.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="idY8LE8SD6/8DnRI" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070118231254.GA5405@wantadilla.lemis.com> X-PGP: finger ceri@FreeBSD.org User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) Sender: Ceri Davies Cc: Dak Ghatikachalam , freebsd-questions , Murray Taylor Subject: Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:21:26 -0000 --idY8LE8SD6/8DnRI Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they > position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the > text. My editor also positions the cursor at the very top when I > reply to a message. But it also makes it possible to tidy things up. To be fair to Microsoft (or perhaps this makes it even worse), their Mac development team clearly understand this, as Entourage (the Mac equivalent of Outlook) doesn't do any of the tens of stupid things that Outlook does. > "Top posting" is only one issue. Others of great importance are > trimming your posts, not breaking the lines into tiny fragments, and > not writing one-line paragraphs. Your .sig is a good example of > things that people should remove from replies. When they are correctly formatted (line-feed,hyphen,hyphen,space), good MUAs can do this automatically. Ceri --=20 That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all. -- Moliere --idY8LE8SD6/8DnRI Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFsOH0ocfcwTS3JF8RAsWnAJ4lm9txGyqJcwwEIAIm+j8RrFqocwCgmoo+ POqKj6p2CGQaKUCTQyssKGw= =4mH3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --idY8LE8SD6/8DnRI--