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Date:      Wed, 13 Oct 2004 14:36:23 +1000
From:      Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Tom Connolly <tomc@cqg.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: topposting (was: colourization in ls command)
Message-ID:  <20041013043623.GB760@eucla.lemis.com>
In-Reply-To: <009601c4b0b0$86d27a50$9a11a8c0@d3stomc>
References:  <20041012224650.GG48218@wantadilla.lemis.com> <009601c4b0b0$86d27a50$9a11a8c0@d3stomc>

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On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 17:09:29 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote:
> >>> Top posting is generally frowned-upon.  People who indulge in it are
> >>> shown to be Microsoft Outlook users, because that is the default of
> >>> Outlook.
> 
> There is a nice little tool for Outlook users, created by Dominik Jain, that
> will modify
> An MS Outlook message to allow for "correct quoting".  Just hit forward,
> reply or reply all
> And the tool does the rest...
> 
> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

We've seen the results of this tool in the recent past.  They weren't
convincing.

Are you aware that your message was formatted with long/short lines?

Greg
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