Hello Jonathan, Wednesday, March 12, 2003, 4:25:17 AM, you wrote:
JA> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- JA> Hash: SHA1 JA> On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, SS wrote... >> I don't know about features of the Secure Bat, but wish to remind >> you that under the current laws in the UK you HAVE to remember your >> encryption password JA> No offence intended... but this is something on this list that I think Hey, none taken man! JA> is preferred... the posting method. You seem to have used what is JA> commonly known as top posting. This is where your answer, feedback, JA> reply, and such appears before the question. This makes threads and JA> emails a little difficult to follow. It's like being told a joke JA> backwards for example. It also promotes over quoting. For example in JA> your reply to the previous mail, you could have got away with just JA> quoting the first paragraph, it keeps the same context of the email, JA> and still gives those following an idea of what is going on, without JA> having to scroll down through your mails. Oh boy, not another top posting / down posting match now, please. I'll just do whatever you want me to. If you guys want it sideways I'll do it sideways, if you want it backwards here it is: olleH nahtanoJ. I'll be struggling with the upside-down... but given a suitable font... :-) JA> As a second point to top quoting, as you got your cut mark (-- ) JA> perfect, when I hit reply to your email, I lost all the original JA> mail... this makes it further difficult to reply ;) Apparently, the default behavior of TB is to place all that (hello line, cursor for input, cut mark and signature) at the top, so I simply used it as it is - I assumed this is the approved way to do things TB way, if the developers so implemented it. Hence the [undesired] result. JA> - -- JA> Jonathan Angliss JA> ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (snip)-ped PGP sig just to save bytes of the scarce space on the 20MB hdds of those with 386SX20 PCs still getting their mail via 14.4Kb link. (Sorry man, I just couldn't resist! It's a joke of course. Actually it was uncalled for. My apologies!) -- Best regards, SS (aka Cheeky Git) mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.62 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
