Evening Tony, > I think mailing lists like this need in-line quoting. The vast majority > do use this, and good mailers like Thunderbird do this by default. I agree.
> However some users append the "Original message" under the reply. M$ > Outlook (and Express) mailers unfortunately do this by default. Top posting is evil! ;-) > This makes it look pretty bad, especially in a reply. Also the > "Original message" includes an in-line quoted message with all the > correct indents, but now without the extra indent, making it unusable in > further in-line replies. Just say no to top posting! > What do others think? I agree. In-line or bottom posting is fine. I would add that we shound snip out unneeded content when replying as well. And, of course, always use Plain Text for emails, it's the standard after all. Guess which software company defaults all its mail clients to use HTML then? Someone I receive emails from on an Oracle Database list has this in his sig: Because it makes things difficult to read. Why is that so? Top posting is evil. I think that about sums it up? Cheers, Norman. _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
