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On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 9:14 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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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 if |
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> there's a stupid implementation of the reply function, I'd never know it. But |
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> 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) -- and some companies actually /require/ that style |
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of quoting, believe it or not. |
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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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