On 03/05/11 11:35, guns wrote:
[...]
With regards to email in your mail client, I suspect that most people
receive email that is not politely hard-wrapped at 72 characters, and
possibly the response therein is even top-posted for convenience. If
this does not describe your mail, then I am quite jealous.
[...]
How email messages look when I receive them depends in part on the
sender's email client's settings: for instance, I got your message
hard-wrapped as above, with a huge lot of empty space on the right. My
own messages appear wrapped at 72 columns or something when I send them,
but they are rewrapped to my mail client's message pane width when I get
them back; only the first time however, not when quoted, even when I do
the quoting. This may be due to "format=flowed" in my outgoing
Content-Type headers. I think there must be a preference about that
somewhere but I'm not sure where.
I've seen argued back and forth whether the use of format=flowed is "the
only polite thing to do" or "the worst impolite thing to do", usually
with partisans of either opinion heatedly defending their own standpoint
and never letting themselves be convinced, so let's not start one more
flame war.
About top-posting, my email client (Mozilla SeaMonkey) has settings for
that, and I even know where they are (what follows is best seen in a
fixed font):
Edit → Mail & Newsgroup Account Settings → <account name> → Composition
& Addressing
___Composition_____________________________________________________
[ ] Compose mail in HTML format
[x] Automatically quote the original message when replying
Then, [ start my reply below the quote |v]
| start my reply above the quote |
| select the quote |
¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
but even when I use the Google Groups web interface (where replies are
top-posted by default), hitting Ctrl-End to move the cursor to the
bottom of the textbox is not a great hassle.
Best regards,
Tony.
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