From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 15:51:18 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B79EA16A4CE for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:51:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from kane.otenet.gr (kane.otenet.gr [195.170.0.27]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF0BA43D53 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:51:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (aris.bedc.ondsl.gr [62.103.39.226])i7JFombQ019332; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:50:48 +0300 Received: from orion.daedalusnetworks.priv (orion [127.0.0.1]) i7JFoe17005811; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:50:40 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost)i7JFoeGo005810; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:50:40 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 18:50:40 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Charles Oppermann Message-ID: <20040819155040.GA5392@orion.daedalusnetworks.priv> References: <20040819134840.GA3104@online.fr> <20040819153936.84A2632736@smtp2.pacifier.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040819153936.84A2632736@smtp2.pacifier.net> cc: 'Rahul Siddharthan' cc: 'David Kelly' cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why top-posting is bad X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 15:51:18 -0000 On 2004-08-19 08:39, Charles Oppermann wrote: > > 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. Which, of course, defaults to "off" :-( This is IMHO part of this ``lack of encouragement'' mentioned in the previous post. A lot of things are configurable in Outlook, but their default options are explicitly in support of the "corporate style of posting" (which isn't very irrational, given the type of people that Outlook was supposedly made for). These defaults are horrible for posting to Internet lists, but since they're defaults hey... nobody is going to change them anyway. At least not the sort of user who sits in front of a keyboard and monitor and "just types".