[nzlug] top posting, quoting

[Michael Adams]

On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:52:34 +1200
tich at clad.co.nz wrote:

> Nick Rout wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 2:24 PM, Mark Foster <blakjak at blakjak.net>
> > wrote:
> >   
> > I blame gmail myself, its quote hiding leads you to forget its
> > there!
> >
> > And it puts you at the top when you start to reply too.
> >
> >   
> I blame Microsoft Outlook Express  myself (and thereby Microsoft by 
> default).  I think it was the first program to top post by default.
> 

I further acuse MS of not quoting text as a default when replying. IOW
the quote marks ">>>" as above are missing from many outlook emails i
recieve. This seems to be increasingly the case with outlook users.

Thank god this is a Linux list.



-- 
Michael

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