From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 15:10:44 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52ECC1065673 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:10:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steinex@nognu.de) Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com (ug-out-1314.google.com [66.249.92.172]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDF2B8FC13 for ; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 15:10:43 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from steinex@nognu.de) Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 30so1663674ugs.39 for ; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:10:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.58.3 with SMTP id g3mr237456fga.26.1225725042171; Mon, 03 Nov 2008 07:10:42 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.86.58.8 with HTTP; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 07:10:42 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:10:42 +0100 From: "Frank Steinborn" To: "Jonathan McKeown" In-Reply-To: <1DB1F935-10CD-461B-80EA-4452FB9CAFF0@nognu.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200811030902.56054.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <200811031659.39326.jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <1DB1F935-10CD-461B-80EA-4452FB9CAFF0@nognu.de> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Subject: Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4) 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: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:10:44 -0000 On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Frank Steinborn wrote: > > That's wrong. > > > Am 03.11.2008 um 15:59 schrieb Jonathan McKeown > : > >> 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