----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Ross" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 10:29 AM Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] ACScript RFC (or FGScript ??)
> John Barrett wrote: > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "David Culp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: "FlightGear developers discussions" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 9:24 AM > >Subject: Re: [Flightgear-devel] ACScript RFC (or FGScript ??) > > > > [Dave's message] > > > > -- > > **************************** [<----- Dave's Signature] > > David Culp > > davidculp2[at]comcast.net > > **************************** > > > > [John's message] > > John, your email is malformed. :) > > You include the original text inline, rather than quoted (prefixed by > some combination of ">" and whitespace). It looks like you are > clicking "forward" rather than "reply" to compose your mail. This > might seem like a meaningless nit, but it actually causes problems. > some of my messages get the indents, some dont -- I dont know why > In this case, the line containing "--" above is interpreted by my mail > reader (Mozilla) as the beginning of a signature, which get colorized > differently than the rest of the mail. There is nothing to tell the > reader where the .sig ends and where your message begins, so your > message ends up a dull, hard-to-read gray. Even worse, Mozilla > helpfully *removes* the signature (and therefore all of your text!) > when it quotes the mail into an editor buffer for a reply. My apologies. I've never had a mail reader that messed with the message content in that way, nor heard of one that did before today > > Believe it or not, this stuff is actually specified in various RFCs. > Microsoft has a horrific record of compliance with those standards, of > course, but nonetheless I *have* seen correctly formatted quotes > emerge from Outlook Express users. :) > Like this message did it right, but sometimes it doesnt and I dont know why. Sometime I even insert the indents by hand (when I notice it) _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
