I would say that you're not going to have much luck in this endeavor.
Personally, I don't care which way its done, and I prefer the 'reply at
top' since I already know what they're replying to most of the time and I
have having to 'look for' the reply.
That said, if you try to impose your views and opinions on others, the
only thing that will come of it is that less people will be willing to
participate in the mailing list. I don't think that's a good thing.
Kelly
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Re: [WiX-users] May I have your attention, please :D
DEÁK JAHN, Gábor írta:
> On Fri, 07 Dec 2007 14:18:07 +0200, Szentpali Janos wrote:
>
> János,
>
>
>> so important. I noticed that most of you tend to use the improper
>> way of replying to mails: reply is placed on top of the quoted
>> message.
>>
>
> I can only second that, however, since the e-mail client program of a
company who shall remain nameless here :-)) has introduced this stupid
habit of adding the "original message" to the bottom of the reply, we
can't seem to get rid of this annoying phenomenon any more... Especially
when people include the whole thread again and again, instead of trimming
down what they quote to the bare minimum...
>
> To tell you frankly, I'm equally annoyed by the habit of said program to
send HTML messages of absolutely insane proportions: every single
paragraph might have several times more ballast than real contents (or
even CSS styles not ever used in the message). I normally let these
messages through a HTML-cleansing filter in my e-mail client and many a
time I end up with 5 KB worth of data out of a 50 KB incoming message... I
know hard drive space is cheap nowadays but we are all programmers here,
hopefully many of us of the old school who feel some kind of physical pain
to see such a waste induced by sloppy programming... :-))
>
> Bye,
> Gábor
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I am glad to see I am not alone out there :). Sadly nobody else seems to
care :(.
As for the issue at hand, it is not just the applications: I even saw
replies that have not been written with the hinted at e-mail client, but
with TB in a funny way: the reply on top, the signature at the bottom
and the quote in the middle! Oh... and the writer of the message is an
employee of the said company, with a degree from the said company ;). Of
course my observations are based circumstantial evidence so sorry if I
am wrong.
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Szentpáli János
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