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 ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
