[nzlug] top posting, quoting

[Nick Rout]

On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:20 AM, Craig Box <craig at dubculture.co.nz> wrote:

> Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery!
>
> Outlook (pre-2007) users are reminded about
> http://jump.to/outlook-quotefix, or for Outlook Express,
> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/.

As an outlook user at the office I thank you for pointing out this
program! I am using it now (not on this message which is gmailed, but
on my office stuff)

>
> (With increases in bandwidth and message processing technology, some
> of the reasons for the rules are being lost in time, especially to
> people who grew up with forums and believe mailing lists to be the
> same.  For example, it used to be frowned upon to have an 8-line
> signature on a 4-line message :-)
>

Still should be banned, longer sigs tend to be either advertising or a
threat of castration for wrongful use of the message, both of which
are superfluous on a mailing list (IMHO).