RE: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)
On Behalf Of Jonathan McKeown On Monday 03 November 2008 08:38:07 joeb wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eitan Adler Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: XFCE4 Thank you for your random guess, but research of the ports system seem to indicate a whole suite of ports are needed to build a complete working environment. Waiting for a real user to fill in the details of what combination of ports they used to build their XFCE4 desktop. I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000 to 2003. The top line, -Original Message-, is the clue that he is using the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. Bob McConnell ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)
On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000 to 2003. The top line, -Original Message-, is the clue that he is using the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. I'm used to seeing the original message starting with its headers in the Outlook style - that's not what's confusing me here. joeb, I don't mean to be rude but I find your posts hard to read (and I've seen others comment so as well), because instead you somehow end up with the original headers AFTER the original message, which is unexpected, and your response after that again - looking as though it belongs to the original header block. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)
That's wrong. Am 03.11.2008 um 15:59 schrieb Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED] : On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000 to 2003. The top line, -Original Message-, is the clue that he is using the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. I'm used to seeing the original message starting with its headers in the Outlook style - that's not what's confusing me here. joeb, I don't mean to be rude but I find your posts hard to read (and I've seen others comment so as well), because instead you somehow end up with the original headers AFTER the original message, which is unexpected, and your response after that again - looking as though it belongs to the original header block. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 4:07 PM, Frank Steinborn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's wrong. Am 03.11.2008 um 15:59 schrieb Jonathan McKeown [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Monday 03 November 2008 16:17:20 Bob McConnell wrote: [Jonathan to joeb via freebsd-questions] I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000 to 2003. The top line, -Original Message-, is the clue that he is using the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies. Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird. I'm used to seeing the original message starting with its headers in the Outlook style - that's not what's confusing me here. joeb, I don't mean to be rude but I find your posts hard to read (and I've seen others comment so as well), because instead you somehow end up with the original headers AFTER the original message, which is unexpected, and your response after that again - looking as though it belongs to the original header block. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm sorry, this was not intended to go to you Jonathan, nor to the list. I messed something up here. Sorry. Frank ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)
On Monday 03 November 2008 08:38:07 joeb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 FBSD1 wrote: What port names need to be installed to create a XFCE4 desktop environment? I was looking for a mega port like kde3 has but could not identify one. Thanks in advance. I'm going to rake a random guess: x11-wm/xfce4 ? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Eitan Adler Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ORG Subject: Re: XFCE4 Thank you for your random guess, but research of the ports system seem to indicate a whole suite of ports are needed to build a complete working environment. Waiting for a real user to fill in the details of what combination of ports they used to build their XFCE4 desktop. I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting is hideously broken. Please fix it. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
