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Date:      Thu, 19 Aug 2004 08:39:37 -0700
From:      "Charles Oppermann" <charles@coppersoftware.com>
To:        "'Rahul Siddharthan'" <rsidd@online.fr>, "'David Kelly'" <dkelly@HiWAAY.net>
Cc:        freebsd-chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   RE: Why top-posting is bad
Message-ID:  <20040819153936.84A2632736@smtp2.pacifier.net>
In-Reply-To: <20040819134840.GA3104@online.fr>

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>>
   Most people are used to email in the corporate context and thus
   used to top-posting.
<<

That's a valid point that's not appreciated on either side of the argument.

>>
2. Microsoft Outlook, which unfortunately a lot of people use, doesn't
   encourage quoting in-text: the "original message" isn't set off by
   ">" marks or anything else to indicate it wasn't something you
   wrote. (Perhaps this is a user-settable option, I don't know.)
<<

It is a user-option in the Tools menu, Options, E-mail Options, reply and
forwarding section.

Charles Oppermann, Copper Software
http://weblogs.asp.net/chuckop/



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