On 2011-09-08, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote: > You'll also notice that my reply doesn't have an additional set of > brackets, so in-line commenting makes it very difficult to know what > is new comment and what is from the previous message.
>From Dennis' message headers: > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0 Yeah, that's a problem with Outlook, it wants to force top-posting and screw attribution so hard that it becomes harder to understand who wrote what. Even if Outlook users plan to use top-posting, Outlook-QuoteFix is still a good way to get rid of some problems with quoting and attribution lines, including the broken reindentation. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ (Disclaimer: I didn't try this. My system is not even able to run Outlook, let alone having it installed.) > PS: It is often handy to see the answer first. I can quickly > determine whether or not I care what the question is. Forty-two. > And if I know > what the general run of a thread has been, I don't need to see the > rest of the message except to check for blankety-blank inline but > unannounced comments. Well, I don't think anything without a preceding attribution mark is "unannounced", at least before the first line with "-- "... -- Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) gopher://sdf-eu.org/1/users/njsg -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
