* Paul Brannan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002-09-06 09:03]: > if someone sends you a long email (and it is necessary > and/or appropriate to quote the email or a large portion > of it), then replying at the top saves the reader the > time of scrolling to the bottom to find the reply.
so you top-post because your recipient is using a shitty mailer or because he does not know how to skip past the quoted text? well, this indeed is supporting bad software and silly users! i would not give either of them any support, especially not when posting to a mailing list; it just makes the archive useless. anyway, all people who are using bad mailers deserve them. so there. > Generally, this situation arises in personal emails > much more so than it does in public forums. maybe for you, dear. > BTW, why did this post show up in my inbox rather than in my > mutt folder? My procmailrc searches for "^TO.*mutt-users".. please explain why you use ".*" here. > but mutt-users doesn't seem to be anywhere in the > headers (unless I missed it somehow). > What part of the header should I be filtering on? using "TO" is fine. > I also notice that neither list-reply nor group-reply > works with the post I am responding to; I had to paste > mutt-users into the Cc: line to reply to the list. > Any ideas why? incorrect setup. Sven
