On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 17:31, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 10/13/19 10:56 AM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 08:51:58AM -0500, Bruce Hill wrote:
> >> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 09:50:19AM +0800, niuneilneo wrote:
> >>
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> >>> A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> >>> Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
> >>> A: Top-posting.
> >>> Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?
> >>>
> >>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
> >>
> >> That's all I got from your HTML email.
> >
> > Lei Niu's comment was beneath that!  HTML mail is always hard to read
> > in text clients,
>
> [snip]
>
> Yes, it is a mismatch between MUAs (Mail User Agent).  Some do not honor
> RFC 3676 (https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3676#section-4.3).
>
> When replying to a message with a standard DASH DASH SP CR LF at the
> beginning of a line, then they should display it when reading, but
> delete it and everything after that when replying.  If they don't it
> confuses other MUAa and is especially problematical on mailing lists.
>
> The LFS lists all follow the standard of placing a footer at the end of
> all posts.  Users who use non-compliant MUAs *should* manually delete
> the footer when replying, but many do not even know about the standard.
>
> I will note that thunderbird and seamonkey are compliant, but Google's
> Web mail is not.  I do not know the status of other MUAs.
>

Well, I use gmail (although I'm not promoting it here), and when replying I
delete the footer.  I've never had a problem on this list.

Richard
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Do not top post on this list.

A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
A: Top-posting.
Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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