Date: Tue, 10 Aug 2004 19:54:30 -0500 From: "Eric Crist" <ecrist@secure-computing.net> To: <Barbish3@adelphia.net>, "'freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG'" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Top posting solution Message-ID: <026801c47f3d$c5a0d140$6401a8c0@Nomad> In-Reply-To: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGKENLGIAA.Barbish3@adelphia.net>
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CRAP. HERE WE GO AGAIN. > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of JJB > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 4:46 PM > To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD. ORG > Subject: Top posting solution > > > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/free>; bsd-questions > > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > CRAP. HERE WE GO AGAIN.
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