Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:10:42 +0100 From: "Frank Steinborn" <steinex@nognu.de> To: "Jonathan McKeown" <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4) Message-ID: <e4e586060811030710o19c13206yca022b3a54e87a08@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1DB1F935-10CD-461B-80EA-4452FB9CAFF0@nognu.de> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBAEHBCMAA.joeb@a1poweruser.com> <200811030902.56054.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <FF8482A96323694490C194BABEAC24A0037A236B@Email.cbord.com> <200811031659.39326.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <1DB1F935-10CD-461B-80EA-4452FB9CAFF0@nognu.de>
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On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de> wrote: > > That's wrong. > > > Am 03.11.2008 um 15:59 schrieb Jonathan McKeown > <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za>: > >> On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: >> >> [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] >>>> >>>> I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting >>>> is hideously broken. Please fix it. >>> >>> It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard >>> quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it >>> by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message >>> I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle >>> bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000 >>> to 2003. >>> >>> The top line, "-----Original Message-----", is the clue that he is using >>> the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. >>> Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. >> >> I'm used to seeing the original message starting with its headers in the >> Outlook style - that's not what's confusing me here. >> >> joeb, I don't mean to be rude but I find your posts hard to read (and I've >> seen others comment so as well), because instead you somehow end up with >> the >> original headers AFTER the original message, which is unexpected, and your >> response after that again - looking as though it belongs to the original >> header block. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" I'm sorry, this was not intended to go to you Jonathan, nor to the list. I messed something up here. Sorry. Frank
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