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Stephen R Laniel's comments on Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting were as 
follows:
# On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:52:41PM -0500, Kent West wrote:
# <message>
#       <messageWereReplyingTo>
#               This is some stuff that a guy wrote
#       </messageWereReplyingTo>
# 
#       <whatWeSayInResponse>
#               I disagree vehemently with whatever you said
#       </whatWeSayInResponse>
# </message>

Wow!  I really like the XML approach.  But how are you going to get all the
email programs in the world to use it?  It seems too late to make such a smart
new approach to email a standard now as old as email is.  Then again, if HTML
email is accepted in so many circles, (not here but ...) why not XML email
everywhere?  It's a much better approach than anything that has been thought up
thus far.

Let's take it one step further:

<message>
        <from name="Me" address="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" />
        <to name="You" address="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" />
        ... multiple recipients get their own <to> headers
        <cc name="Somebody Else" address="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" />
        ... same as to for multiples
        ... other headers in same format ...
        <body>
                <quote>
                        I think you are an email junky.
                </quote>
                <response>
                        No I'm not!  I have attached the reason why not.
                </response>
                <quote>
                        You read too much email.
                </quote>
                <response>
                        It gives me something to do.
                </response>
        </body>
        <attach filename="notajunky.xml" type="application/xml"
        description="Why I'm not an email junky" size="26k">
                Put a file in here.  The program will do all this for you
                including filling in the size and mimetype.
        </attach>
</message>

Hey.  I can dream can't I?

Lorenzo
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