Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 03:20:08 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr> To: JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> Cc: freebsd@pursued-with.net Subject: Re: Top posting solution Message-ID: <20040811002008.GC15795@gothmog.gr> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOENNGIAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net> References: <Pine.OSX.4.58.0408101447170.2937@onorysvfu.chefhrq-jvgu.arg> <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOENNGIAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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On 2004-08-10 18:14, JJB <Barbish3@adelphia.net> wrote: > Kevin Stevens wrote: > > On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote: > > > >> The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix > >> email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email > while > >> indenting with a quote character. > > > > Not true. Pine doesn't, for example. It begins a reply with the > > cursor at the very top of the message body. > > > >> Top posting came along when MS/Windows came on the market with > their > >> own email clients: Outlook express which is the email client > built [...] > > Please provide a cite/ref to the "Unix email format" as something > more > > concrete than your personal definition. And more concrete than > RFC > > 1855, whose second sentence reads: "This memo does not specify an > > Internet standard of any kind." > > So your a hard core purest on the other side of the coin. You can > nit pick about wording all you want. It still does not detract from > the fact that there is an 'FIX' to change the behavior of MS/windows > top posting. As always, the reader has the chose in how they want to > reply to posts on this list, top or bottom posting. I apologize in advance if I jump in in what might sound like a knit-picking manner. However, if this "fix" produces messages like the one above, where all the usual mutilation of Outlook regarding quoting and wrapping the text is clearly visible... it's not a fix :-(
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