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Re: Top posting [was: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!]
From: "Dave Korn" <davek_throwaway () hotmail com>
Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2005 18:17:01 +0100
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From: Dee Holtsclaw Message-Id: 200509091035.48430.dee () pestcontroldata com
It's also quite a pain to inline post for those unfortunates stuck with BillCo's LookOut! The quote formatting in many versions tends to get confused when you try to insert new text and you often end up with a tangled mess.
Get OE-QuoteFix. It's completely brilliant and sorts out all those formatting problems. I can't recommend it enough!
Although I do not suffer from this myself (I'm running FC3 and using KMail), I tend to top-post when writing a essay style reply (or diatribe) and the quoted message is included for reference only (or when sending
Please, snip the quote. Everyone's seen it already, and even if they haven't, it will usually be just above your reply in their newsreader/browser/whatever. It's 100% redundant. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... _______________________________________________ Full-Disclosure - We believe in it. Charter: http://lists.grok.org.uk/full-disclosure-charter.html Hosted and sponsored by Secunia - http://secunia.com/
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- [Fwd: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Jason Coombs (Sep 08)
- Re: [Fwd: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Micheal Espinola Jr (Sep 08)
- Re: [Fwd: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 08)
- Re: [Fwd: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Micheal Espinola Jr (Sep 08)
- Re: [Fwd: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Gareth Davies (Sep 08)
- Re: [Fwd: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Steve Kudlak (Sep 09)
- Top posting [was: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Dee Holtsclaw (Sep 09)
- Re: Top posting [was: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Dave Korn (Sep 09)
- Re: Top posting [was: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Nick FitzGerald (Sep 09)
- Re: [Fwd: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Ivaylo Zashev (Sep 09)
- Re: [Fwd: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Valdis . Kletnieks (Sep 08)
- Re: [Fwd: MM - #$%@ Kill Google!] Micheal Espinola Jr (Sep 08)