Rob Dixon wrote: > Scott E Robinson wrote: >> >> Randal wrote: >>> >>> Scott E Robinson wrote: >>> >>>> (And, sorry for the top-posting. I haven't figured out how to fix >>>> that!) >>> >>> Uh, press the down arrow about a dozen times. How *hard* is that? >> >> Lotus Notes adds a header to the top of the note which I *can* cut >> and paste to the bottom. It does not do the indentation with '>' >> characters that seems to be preferred. > > Yep. Microsoft email clients are similarly distinctive! It doesn't > help that Unix pundits claim the email ground as their own, but I > tend to agree with their conclusion: that bottom-posting is best but > with ad-hoc formatting. > > I have taken to copying messages into my text editor as there is no > email client that I know that can do what I want. Until I write it, > that is :)
Someone has saved you the trouble... There is a program called Quotefix that will clean up your stuff and do the "bottom posting" as so many seem to prefer here. Seems to work very well for 99% of the messages it encounters. Outlook version http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/html-data/software/outlook-quotefix/ Outlook Express version http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/html-data/software/oe-quotefix/ -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
