Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 16:07:19 +0100 From: Frank Steinborn <steinex@nognu.de> To: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> Cc: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4) Message-ID: <1DB1F935-10CD-461B-80EA-4452FB9CAFF0@nognu.de> In-Reply-To: <200811031659.39326.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> References: <NBECLJEKGLBKHHFFANMBAEHBCMAA.joeb@a1poweruser.com> <200811030902.56054.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> <FF8482A96323694490C194BABEAC24A0037A236B@Email.cbord.com> <200811031659.39326.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za>
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That's wrong. Am 03.11.2008 um 15:59 schrieb Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za >: > On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: > > [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] >>> I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting >>> is hideously broken. Please fix it. >> >> It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard >> quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to >> use it >> by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each >> message >> I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle >> bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office >> 2000 >> to 2003. >> >> The top line, "-----Original Message-----", is the clue that he is >> using >> the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. >> Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. > > I'm used to seeing the original message starting with its headers in > the > Outlook style - that's not what's confusing me here. > > joeb, I don't mean to be rude but I find your posts hard to read > (and I've > seen others comment so as well), because instead you somehow end up > with the > original headers AFTER the original message, which is unexpected, > and your > response after that again - looking as though it belongs to the > original > header block. > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org > "
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