Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:25:22 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann <ulf@Alameda.net> To: Charles Oppermann <charles@coppersoftware.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why top-posting is bad Message-ID: <20040819162522.GD15230@seven.alameda.net> In-Reply-To: <20040819153936.84A2632736@smtp2.pacifier.net> References: <20040819134840.GA3104@online.fr> <20040819153936.84A2632736@smtp2.pacifier.net>
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On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 08:39:37AM -0700, Charles Oppermann wrote: > >> > 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/ An option Outlook loves to ignore, just like it loves to ignore to use ASCII only. -- Regards, Ulf. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Ulf Zimmermann, 1525 Pacific Ave., Alameda, CA-94501, #: 510-865-0204 You can find my resume at: http://seven.Alameda.net/~ulf/resume.html
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