On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 9:04 PM, Alex Eckelberry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I started, like everyone else, eons ago with bottom posting. > > Then when That Horror Known as Outlook came out, I kept having to force > others to go to bottom posting, bitterly complaining when they posted on > top (Outlook's default behavior). > > I fought it bitterly. Huge fights with others (including family). > > I was estranged from my own corporate culture. > > But then... I started to post on top, and rather liked it. In fact, the > more I do, the more I like. > > I suppose it's because you don't really read an email from the top to > the bottom, you actually read email subject lines (and the preview pane) > from the top of your inbox to the bottom. > > An even more miserable admission for my pathetic soul, is that I've > found I rather like That Horror Known as Outlook. > > I see the conflicts in lists that I'm on -- many use old newsreader > style in their responses, while others use Outlook's defaults. There's > a general shift in habits as the world has moved more on to email > listservs. Newsreader default behavior is different than Outlook's. > > So try it up on top. The view is nice up here, even if it is sometimes > rather lonely. > > > Alex
Or try the quotefix Outlook wrapper. Takes out the tedium of kosher quoting style, the style is also configurable to some extent. <http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/> -- Åke Nordin Unix/net geek, Netia.se consultant, Stacken member. _______________________________________________ Fun and Misc security discussion for OT posts. https://linuxbox.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/funsec Note: funsec is a public and open mailing list.
