On Fri, September 16, 2011 2:03 pm, Devin Teske wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: owner-freebsd-questi...@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- >> questi...@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of David Demelier >> Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 10:38 AM >> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >> Subject: Re: Please secure your FTP access >> >> On 15/09/2011 23:46, Allen wrote: >> > Sorry for top posting >> >> I have never understood why people apologise when they top post. Is your > client >> mail so bad that you can't move your cursor selector under the last >> message? > > Preamble: Not making excuses for others' actions, but airing grievances > because > I'd really like Microsoft to fix this one. > > Observation: > Microsoft Outlook 2010 has a nasty nasty bug (or at least, I consider it > to be a > bug). If the e-mail that you are responding to is in HTML format and your > reply > is also in HTML format, then you cannot insert text in the middle of the > reply-text. The expectation that you can insert text in the middle of the > reply-text at a different indentation-level fails miserably. As a > work-around > you can change the reply-mail to be in either Rich Text or Plain Text > format, > but that removes the indentation-level of the reply-text (yuck). It's > rather > frustrating and whenever I am faced with top-posting because of Outlook's > iniquities or using another mail client ... I simply use another mail > client > (period). > > Just sharing... > Devin
Also many smartphone and tablet mailers automatically top-post, and make it significantly harder to move the cursor around inside the text with any accuracy. Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"