Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

[Cliff Sarginson]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:52:27AM -0500, ktb wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:48:22AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > Bud Rogers wrote:
> > 
> > > Except that in this case we're not talking about a practice that was
> > > not previously common or even not so common. We're talking about a
> > > practice that was virtually unknown until Microsoft flooded the market
> > > with badly broken mail and news clients that make it very difficult to
> > > properly quote or attribute anything.
> > 
> > True. In this situation, I wouldn't use the word "deprecated". I would
> > just say that putting one's reply above the original message makes one
> > look like an idiot.
> 
> I like that...lol.  I remember when I first started using linux I posted
> to some list, probably this one.  I wanted to know how to set Netscape
> mail to default, like outlook, to appending my text to the top of the
> message.  You can imagine what response I got:D
> kent
> 
Did they tell you cannot "append" something before something else..
(just teasing)
Cliff