Just a sidenote regarding sigblocks I appreciate that the nasty great wadge of text at the end of this email is not attractive, useful nor even humorous, however I at least am obliged to append the nasty great huge legal disclaimers at the end of any/every email I send from a work context. Could be a sign of the litigious world we're building ;-)
However I will endeavour to shift it to the bottom of all text in the email so at least it isn't obstructing the basic information. Cheers ------------------------------------------------------ Tref Gare Development Consultant Areeba Level 19/114 William St, Melbourne VIC 3000 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone: +61 3 9642 5553 fax: +61 3 9642 1335 website: http://www.areeba.com.au ------------------------------------------------------ "This email is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above and contains information that is confidential. No confidentiality is waived or lost by any mis-transmission. If you received this correspondence in error, please notify the sender and immediately delete it from your system. You must not disclose, copy or rely on any part of this correspondence if you are not the intended recipient. Any communication directed to clients via this message is subject to our Agreement and relevant Project Schedule. Any information that is transmitted via email which may offend may have been sent without knowledge or the consent of Areeba." ------------------------------------------------------ -----Original Message----- From: Nikola Milutinovic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, 13 December 2002 5:17 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Weird messages Zsolt Antal wrote: > Hi, > > Is the following normal, accepted or simply `we must live with it'? > > - html post This is debatable. There is no fixed standard on what a "HTML message" is. A HTML document embedded into the body of the "real" message as a MIME chunk is so far the closest description I've seen. On the other hand, most users have or can get their hands on a mail client that swallows HTML messages - which is not an excuse, but HTML folks are using as a leverage for their cause. As you can see, I'm sending in plain TEXT. > - top post (ie.: reply _above_ the quoted message) Top post as a reply to the lower quoted section is a stupidity, agreed. But if you want to make a preamble to your reply, then it can be used. > - big sigblocks (over 4-5 lines) Only if they are funny. And I'd suggest users stick to this formula: sigBlock.NumberOfLines()*sigBlocak.HumorLevel() == SignatureBlock.FIXED_CONSTANT > - original post/question as a reply to a message in an absolutelly > unrelated thread Utter stupidity. I don't know how they manage to do it. Reply, erase quoted text and write their message? > Or there is no chance to explain this to the users of this list why all > of the above is bad habit/technique? How? You'd need a moderator to police this list and evaluate every mail. For each "bad" mail, they would have to send a direct reply to the users and withstand a, usually, long reply-forth-and-back conversation with them, plus be a toll free support in teaching them how to use their clients. People on this list who are answering requests already have their hands full. > (I'm not wondering when I look at the headers from the weird posts, > especially at the `X-Mailer' field.) :-) > Sorry for my english! So far, so good. Nixie. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
