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: > >> > >>> -- > >>> http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > >>> FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > >>> Unsubscribe: See the above information page > >>> > >>> 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? > >>> > >>> 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
-- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page 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? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
