From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 21 17:23:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A21BC16A4CE for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:23:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from ozlabs.org (ozlabs.org [203.10.76.45]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 300E243D1D for ; Sun, 21 Mar 2004 17:23:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from blackwater.lemis.com (blackwater.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1B9BD2BD7F for ; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 12:23:47 +1100 (EST) Received: by blackwater.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 1319A51211; Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:53:45 +1030 (CST) Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 11:53:45 +1030 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: JJB Message-ID: <20040322012344.GB52612@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <405E3940.3080706@one-arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="cN+O50sc7gZAK+8F" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 cc: FreeBSD-Questions cc: uidzero Subject: Re: Top posting X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 01:23:49 -0000 --cN+O50sc7gZAK+8F Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Long/short syndrome. On Sunday, 21 March 2004 at 20:09:17 -0500, JJB wrote: > So unix mail clients bottom post by design and MS/outlook tops > posts by design. No, that's not a question of design: it's the way you use them. > So is there some MS/Outlook config option to change it to bottom > post? Well, it would be nice to have it to interface to an editor. That seems not to be possible, which completely baffles me. > DO Unix mail clients have some option to config them to top post? No. > SO here we are right back at the starting point. The 2 different > groups have to just learn to deal with the list being populated with > both top and bottom posting intermingled throughout the thread. In fact, you're bringing up another point. Microsoft MUAs appear to be so difficult to use that many people take the path of least resistance, leaving a trail of mutilation at the end of the message. > No amount of complaining are going to change these facts, so suck it > up, and move on. They're not facts. No amount of claiming will make them facts. Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. =20 For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html Note: I discard all HTML mail unseen. Finger grog@FreeBSD.org for PGP public key. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --cN+O50sc7gZAK+8F Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAXkAgIubykFB6QiMRAhXkAJ0boZwZhvV47/nf1ymsohizwWrdnACdG8cF WkRvGHAIlnS4o1dNdWsHveI= =nHly -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --cN+O50sc7gZAK+8F--