From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 19 16:25:22 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 E4D9616A4CF for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:25:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from seven.Alameda.net (seven.alameda.net [64.81.53.71]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C205043D45 for ; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 16:25:22 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ulf@Alameda.net) Received: by seven.Alameda.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 7E1F73A201; Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:25:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 09:25:22 -0700 From: Ulf Zimmermann To: Charles Oppermann Message-ID: <20040819162522.GD15230@seven.alameda.net> 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> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: Alameda Networks, Inc. X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 4.10-RELEASE-p2 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 Reply-To: ulf@Alameda.net 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 16:25:23 -0000 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