From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 11 14:12:27 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F11816A4CE for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:12:27 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 55C6B43D2F for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:12:27 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nocmonkey@gmail.com) Received: by mproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 77so190633rnl for ; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:12:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.38.77.53 with SMTP id z53mr542565rna; Wed, 11 Aug 2004 07:12:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 10:12:19 -0400 From: Danny To: barbish3@adelphia.net In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" Subject: Re: Top posting solution X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 14:12:27 -0000 On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:45:58 -0400, JJB wrote: > Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard > liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the > email messages on this list. > > The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix > email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while > indenting with a quote character. > > Top posting came along when MS/Windows came on the market with their > own email clients: Outlook express which is the email client built > into Internet explorer and the MS/Office Outlook email client. > > There is a little known fix for MS/Outlook express and MS/Office > Outlook email clients that change the behavior of these MS/Windows > email clients so they adhere to the Unix email format of posting the > reply to the bottom of the email while indenting with a quote > character. > > Information and fix download can be found at these URLs. > > MS/Outlook express > http://home.cs.tum.edu/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ > > MS/Office Outlook > http://home.cs.tum.edu/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ > > To all you Unix hard liners, Please instead of complaining to the > top posters, it would be so much nicer if you just informed the > MS/Windows top poster of the above links so they know about the > solution to fix their email clients to adhere to the Unix email > format used on this list. Geez this is tough to ask cause it has nothing to do with FreeBSD, but has anyone tried this (Outlook-quotefix) with Outlook 2003 in an Exchange (2000 or 2003 envrionment)? For the record, I love FreeBSD and utilize it's power throughout a company which is mainly MS (not my choice right now) boxen. :) ...D