Jason Wong said:
> On Sunday 16 March 2003 02:20, Jassu Laivuori wrote:
>
>> I think its waste of time to argue about personal opinions =) One
>> answers inside to the previous text and one to the top, everyone can
>> choose what they want to use =)
>
> I think it's more than a matter of personal preferences. I bet if MS
> didn't  come out with OE and it's obnoxious habit of putting an answer
> before the  question (top posting) then everyone would be using the
> tried and tested  method of quoting what you need and putting your
> response underneath what  you're responding to.

For what it's worth ... Lotus Notes does top posting on replies as well.

>> If you could provide a patch for that it would be great. I think it
>> could be nice to have to the options that user could decide which mark
>> to use to quotes or not to use it at all, or then somekind of plugin
>> for that. I think i'm not the onlyone who could use that... But for me
>> would be enough that i could disable the hole marking =)
>
> Because the '>' is pretty much the standard now for marking quoted text,
> smart  mailing programs would pick up on the '>' and automatically
> indent or colour  the different levels of quoted text making it easier
> to see who said what.  Removing it would mean losing this useful
> functionality. Changing it would  cause incompatibility.
>
> --
> Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz
> Open Source Software Systems Integrators
> * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development *
>

-Christian





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