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On Wednesday 25 March 2009 17:16:51 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> |
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> > On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:54:21 Momesso Andrea wrote: |
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> >> Unfortunatly my BlackBerry doesn't allow bottom posting. I hope you guys |
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> >> forgive me for the few times I answer on this list using my mobile |
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> >> device. |
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> > What? There's no down arrow on a BlackBerry? |
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> > I don't have one of those devices, and fully intend to never have one, so |
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> > if there's a stupid implementation of the reply function, I'd never know |
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> > it. But just asking, that's all. |
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> There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the |
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> "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the |
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> reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. |
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> This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but does |
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> show you the entire conversation unaltered (when everyone uses |
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> Outlook, anyway) |
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haha, fat chance of that on a Gentoo list :-) |
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> -- and some companies actually /require/ that style |
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> of quoting, believe it or not. |
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<sigh> I know. I work for one. email style is driven by the sales people. |
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But us techies ignore the rules and do it our way anyway - we admin the mail |
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relays |
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> Replying to specific parts of an e-mail in Outlook (etc) is usually a |
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> joke. People resort to strange combinations of colorizing, changing |
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> fonts, emboldening, italicizing, etc. All of it is hideous and was |
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> solved 30 years ago by simple indentation and nesting of quotes... |
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> Thanks a lot, Microsoft. |
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> I use gmail for this and other mailing lists; it collapses quoted text |
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> and shows e-mails in a conversational view. It really does a good job |
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> of it and the top-posting and quoting-of-entire-emails really becomes |
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> a non-issue. It's the next best thing to having everyone quote |
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> properly. |
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Yes, gmail is quite good at it in a browser. It's ben ages since I did that |
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though - I pop my mail and just use the web end to scan the spam folder once a |
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month |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |
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