On 8 Jan 1999 at 00:43, Andrew Collier wrote: > >PS. David, *please* could you set up your mail client to place the quoted > >messages above the new text, not below it, and do some judicious editing. > >It makes threads a lot easier to follow.
Then on Fri, Jan 08, 1999 at 09:02:30AM -0000, David quoted it all at the bottom of a message saying: > Wish I could.... any suggestions any other win98 users? Outlook Express is by all accounts a terrible client for mail and news (in a flamewar in oxbridge.tat we have already discovered that it cannot be configured to stop wrapping quotations while keeping the line length of new text to acceptable limits), but even that seems to be able to put the quotes at the top judging by various emails I have received (some of which were even properly trimmed, although none has a proper "X said:" at the top). Honestly, you'd think Microsoft would be able to come up with a mail client that obeyed common sense formatting rules. Had nobody at Microsoft ever received an email before when they started writing this? imc
