Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 11:34:24 -0500 From: Gerard Seibert <gerard@seibercom.net> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term) Message-ID: <20070119112918.2612.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20070119152124.GE25249@submonkey.net> References: <20070118231254.GA5405@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20070119152124.GE25249@submonkey.net>
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On Friday January 19, 2007 at 10:21:24 (AM) Ceri Davies wrote: > 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. Actually, the MS Live Beta version can be configured to place the cursor at the end when replying. > > "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. No one needs a 10+ line signature. Perhaps they are compromising for other shortcomings. > > When they are correctly formatted (line-feed,hyphen,hyphen,space), good > MUAs can do this automatically. I think the problem can be more readily attributed to the theory of "PEBKC". -- Gerard
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