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Date:      Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:45:58 -0400
From:      "JJB" <Barbish3@adelphia.net>
To:        "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Top posting solution
Message-ID:  <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKENLGIAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>

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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.

Thanks for you attention



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