On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 19:09, Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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> >      >>> 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.
>
> Yes, that's my point.  You have to know to do that manually.  It should
> be automatic, or at a minimum, configurable.
>

Ah, I misunderstood your point.  I thought that you meant that *even
though* the footer may have been removed a successful reply is not
guaranteed.

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?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style

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