Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Tuesday, 10 August 2004 at 14:58:02 -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote:
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
indenting with a quote character.
Not
Chris wrote:
Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:45:58 PM -0400 JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
email messages on this list.
The fact of life is
On Aug 10, 2004, at 6:25 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
Here's a good reason to top-post: I'm referring to the message as a
whole, rather than to the content.
What reference to a whole? Whole what?
This message came in while I was writing my previous message in this
thread. It shows *exactly*
(This message is also located at the bottom of the message, and also
in-line)
[top post]
Oh boy, am I tired of this discussion that in some kind of nature law
must pop up every three or four month.
| Here's a good reason to top-post: I'm referring to the message as
a
| whole, rather
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:45:58 -0400, JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
email messages on this list.
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the
On Wednesday, August 11, 2004 12:24:24 PM Bart Silverstrim
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|Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:45:13 -0400
|From: Bart Silverstrim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Subject: Re: Top posting solution
|To: FreeBSD Questions [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
|Content-Type: text
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
email messages on this list.
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote:
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
indenting with a quote character.
Not true. Pine doesn't, for example. It begins a reply with the cursor
at the very top of the
--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:45:58 PM -0400 JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
email messages on this list.
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere
On Tuesday, 10 August 2004 at 14:58:02 -0700, Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote:
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
indenting with a quote character.
Not true. Pine doesn't,
Hi Paul,
--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:13 PM -0500 Paul Schmehl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I'm trying to think why someone would be posting to a freebsd list
from a Windows box
Because some of us are working in part on building / servicing a
predominantly Windows network during the day,
Here's a good reason to top-post: I'm referring to the message as a
whole, rather than to the content.
This message came in while I was writing my previous message in this
thread. It shows *exactly* the points I was referring to. Yes, the
reply is posted at the bottom, but the quoted text is
Paul Schmehl wrote:
--On Tuesday, August 10, 2004 05:45:58 PM -0400 JJB
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard
liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the
email messages on this list.
The fact of life is all the Unix
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote:
So your a hard core purest on the other side of the coin.
You know absolutely nothing about my position on this subject other than
what you infer from the formatting of the posts I've made. The fact that
I reject specious argument from incorrect facts is
On Aug 10, 2004, at 5:20 PM, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
It would actually be much nicer if people would return to literacy
standards that existed, not only in the computer world, before
Microsoft came along. I've long given up actively trying to help
people write literate mail. I just ignore
On Aug 10, 2004, at 4:58 PM, Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote:
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while
indenting with a quote character.
Not true. Pine doesn't, for example. It begins a
On 2004-08-10 18:14, JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Kevin Stevens wrote:
On Tue, 10 Aug 2004, JJB wrote:
The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix
email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email
while
indenting with a quote character.
Not true.
CRAP. HERE WE GO AGAIN.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JJB
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:46 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG
Subject: Top posting solution
Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix
hard
regarding quoting
and wrapping the text is clearly visible...
it's not a fix :-(
Giorgos-- it would be reasonable to assume that JJB was using the tool he
speaks of, only that would not be correct; oe-quotefix doesn't work with
Outlook itself:
] From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] Subject: RE: Top posting
itself:
] From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] Subject: RE: Top posting solution
] Message-id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409
] X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0)
[ Only someone condemned to support Windows users would want
doesn't work with Outlook itself:
] From: JJB [EMAIL PROTECTED]
] Subject: RE: Top posting solution
] Message-id:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
] X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409
] X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0)
[ Only someone condemned to support
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