On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 17:45:58 -0400, JJB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Over the years I have seen many posts on this list where Unix hard > liners complain about people posting their replies to the top of the > email messages on this list. > > The fact of life is all the Unix mail clients adhere to the Unix > email format of posting the reply to the bottom of the email while > indenting with a quote character. > > Top posting came along when MS/Windows came on the market with their > own email clients: Outlook express which is the email client built > into Internet explorer and the MS/Office Outlook email client. > > There is a little known fix for MS/Outlook express and MS/Office > Outlook email clients that change the behavior of these MS/Windows > email clients so they adhere to the Unix email format of posting the > reply to the bottom of the email while indenting with a quote > character. > > Information and fix download can be found at these URLs. > > MS/Outlook express > http://home.cs.tum.edu/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ > > MS/Office Outlook > http://home.cs.tum.edu/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ > > To all you Unix hard liners, Please instead of complaining to the > top posters, it would be so much nicer if you just informed the > MS/Windows top poster of the above links so they know about the > solution to fix their email clients to adhere to the Unix email > format used on this list.
Geez this is tough to ask cause it has nothing to do with FreeBSD, but has anyone tried this (Outlook-quotefix) with Outlook 2003 in an Exchange (2000 or 2003 envrionment)? For the record, I love FreeBSD and utilize it's power throughout a company which is mainly MS (not my choice right now) boxen. :) ...D _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"