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Alas! David T-G spake thus:
It's not that it doesn't work (and you can even set it to % easily
enough :-) but that modifying the original message by
Ken, et al --
...and then Ken Weingold said...
%
% On Wed, Feb 6, 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
% I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies
...
% So what do you guys think now? Lusers forced into poor quoting by
% default settings they don't know how to
Rob, et al --
...and then Feztaa said...
%
% Alas! Ken Weingold spake thus:
% Well first you need to get the new O'Reilly book:
% http://www.hellrot.org/stuff/ora.jpg.
%
% ROFL, I want that book ;)
Indeed!
%
% Second, as you may know, you can actually get Outlook to quote
% properly,
Rob, et al --
...and then Feztaa said...
%
% I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies
% after the quote, The Right Way. She uses LookOut, of course, and doesn't
% like the default quote style that it uses. She says that the way I do it
% is so cool.
I, too, have
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:50:30 -0700
From: Rob 'Feztaa' Park [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.
To: Mutt Users List [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Really, though: this isn't a network, just one person to one person. She
can read proper
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:13:31PM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
So what do you guys think now? Lusers forced into poor quoting by
default settings they don't know how to change, or lusers stubbornly
refusing to do anything resembling intelligent behavior?
I think that lusers quote poorly
At 12:13 AM EST on February 7 Rob 'Feztaa' Park sent off:
I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies
after the quote, The Right Way.
So what do you guys think now? Lusers forced into poor quoting by
default settings they don't know how to change, or lusers
I think this all stems from people not trimming away quoted material. If
everyone's going to quote pages of needless text, it makes sense to put your
replies at the top; otherwise you'd have to skip past pages of worthless
filler to get to the actual message.
When was the last time you saw
I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies
after the quote, The Right Way. She uses LookOut, of course, and doesn't
like the default quote style that it uses. She says that the way I do it
is so cool.
I'm going to turn this into another reason why she ought to be
On Feb 06, Rob 'Feztaa' Park [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:
I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies
after the quote, The Right Way. She uses LookOut, of course, and doesn't
like the default quote style that it uses. She says that the way I do it
is so cool.
I'm
On Wed, Feb 6, 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies
after the quote, The Right Way. She uses LookOut, of course, and doesn't
like the default quote style that it uses. She says that the way I do it
is so cool.
I'm going to
* Rob 'Feztaa' Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 07. 2002 00:11]:
[...]
or lusers stubbornly refusing to do anything resembling intelligent
behavior?
Have you taken a good look at php-general lately? g
Someone let the flood gates down.
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Brian Clark | Unable to leap tall buildings in a
On Wed, Feb 6, 2002, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
Don't know to change or even if they do, can't really. If I started
quoting the right way at work, it would confuse people to no end... they
wouldn't know where to find my response inside of Outlook's awful message
display interface (marking
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Alas! Ken Weingold spake thus:
Well first you need to get the new O'Reilly book:
http://www.hellrot.org/stuff/ora.jpg. =20
ROFL, I want that book ;)
Second,
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Alas! Jeremy Blosser spake thus:
If I started quoting the right way at work, it would confuse people
to no end... they wouldn't know where to find my response
On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Jeremy Blosser wrote:
[snip]
Don't know to change or even if they do, can't really. If I started
quoting the right way at work, it would confuse people to no end... they
wouldn't know where to find my response inside of Outlook's awful message
display interface
On Wed, Feb 6, 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote:
Plus when you set quoting to in the options, every time you are
in that dialog box and hit Ok, it will complain. :-/
Really? The messages I get from her seem to be quoted with
properly, she just doesn't know how to actually write a proper
Ah, then she is messing something up. :) Outlook will complain, but
it will do it. And it will quote properly if you set it to. Worked
for me at my last job, where I had to use Outlook. Also make sure she
is sending in plain text, and not that rich text crap.
As much as I'd like to
Alas! Kenneth Pronovici spake thus:
As much as I'd like to blame Outlook here, I've had this experience
and it hasn't been Outlook so much as a user issue. The user was just
inserting right into the middle of the paragraph, actually on the
lines, without understanding what the characters
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