On 10/13/19 12:26 PM, Richard Melville wrote:
On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 17:31, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]
<mailto:[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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>>
>> 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.
Yes, that's my point. You have to know to do that manually. It should
be automatic, or at a minimum, configurable.
-- Bruce
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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?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
