From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 19 16:39:34 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 87A5816A402 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:39:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (claire.ber.rewt.org.uk [217.160.200.67]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47DE113C45E for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:39:34 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from joe@joeholden.co.uk) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BB8B879 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:39:33 +0000 (GMT) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at claire.ber.rewt.org.uk Received: from claire.ber.rewt.org.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (claire.ber.rewt.org.uk [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id m6pHlvpeFB0S for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:39:26 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [195.28.169.201] (jwh.lon.rewt.org.uk [195.28.169.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by claire.ber.rewt.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id C3249B814 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:39:26 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <45B0F43D.2050602@joeholden.co.uk> Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:39:25 +0000 From: Joe Holden User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0b1 (Windows/20061206) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: User Questions References: <20070118231254.GA5405@wantadilla.lemis.com> <20070119152124.GE25249@submonkey.net> <20070119112918.2612.GERARD@seibercom.net> In-Reply-To: <20070119112918.2612.GERARD@seibercom.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 16:39:34 -0000 Gerard Seibert wrote: > 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". > There are also patches for Outlook to implement proper quoting and replying. Ta, Joe