From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 11 02:38:51 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 627C316A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:38:51 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rosebud.otenet.gr (rosebud.otenet.gr [195.170.0.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49EC443D49 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:38:50 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-a020.otenet.gr [212.205.215.20]) i7B2cktw023424; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:38:47 +0300 Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id i7B2c6ri007148; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:38:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id i7B2c6ld007139; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:38:06 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:38:06 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: Chuck Swiger Message-ID: <20040811023806.GA75391@gothmog.gr> References: <20040811002008.GC15795@gothmog.gr> <41197E24.2030305@mac.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <41197E24.2030305@mac.com> cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Top posting solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 02:38:51 -0000 On 2004-08-10 22:02, Chuck Swiger wrote: > Giorgos Keramidas wrote: > >On 2004-08-10 18:14, JJB wrote: > [ ...badly quoted stuff... ] > >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 :-( > > Giorgos-- it would be reasonable to assume that JJB was using the tool he > speaks of, only that would not be correct; oe-quotefix doesn't work with > Outlook itself: > > ] From: JJB > ] Subject: RE: Top posting solution > ] Message-id: > ] X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 > ] X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0) > > [ Only someone condemned to support Windows users would want to understand > the relationship between Outlook and OE in more detail, so suffice it to > say that the two are much more different than one might expect from the > shared name. ] Thanks for the clarification! I was sleepy when I replied and somehow missed the important yet subtle detail. I do know the differences of Outlook and OE. I regularly have to read email formatted [or should I say "unformatted"?] by Outlook 2003 for my $realjob and I've used both Outlook and OE in the past. I just felt it was a bit funny to find a message in support of Outlook that exhibited exactly the sort of malformed output that Outlook is known for. What I wrote wasn't meant to be an offense to JJB who's one of the regular posters and *does* contribute a lot to helping others :-)