| 1 |
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Paul Hartman |
| 2 |
<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 3 |
> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
| 4 |
>> On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: |
| 5 |
>>> Unfortunatly my BlackBerry doesn't allow bottom posting. I hope you guys |
| 6 |
>>> forgive me for the few times I answer on this list using my mobile |
| 7 |
>>> device. |
| 8 |
>> |
| 9 |
>> What? There's no down arrow on a BlackBerry? |
| 10 |
>> |
| 11 |
>> I don't have one of those devices, and fully intend to never have one, so if |
| 12 |
>> there's a stupid implementation of the reply function, I'd never know it. But |
| 13 |
>> just asking, that's all. |
| 14 |
> |
| 15 |
> There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the |
| 16 |
> "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the |
| 17 |
> reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. |
| 18 |
> This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but does |
| 19 |
> show you the entire conversation unaltered (when everyone uses |
| 20 |
> Outlook, anyway) -- and some companies actually /require/ that style |
| 21 |
> of quoting, believe it or not. |
| 22 |
|
| 23 |
I will add that e-mail clients that are geared toward HTML e-mail tend |
| 24 |
to go the top-posting route, too, because doing the traditional |
| 25 |
quoting of HTML e-mails is nearly impossible. |
Archives