Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

[sandra ragan]

You are correct... I mis-spoke... it is Mail...

On Feb 3, 2006, at 6:25 PM, phoenix wrote:


In /Safari/? Please don't mistake this for nit-picking, but I'm
genuinely curious if it's Safari (the web browser) or Mail.app that 
you're
talking about -- or some other program. I don't think I've seen a 
toggle

like this in Safari preferences. [grins]


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Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

[Geoffrey Peters]

Stardate 060203.11:52 -0500. A subspace message from Laurent Daudelin reads:


1. It's logical. It shows the flow from message to response.


Historical note: RFC 1855 (which is what these rules are based on) 
grew out of the inherent patchiness in UseNet NNTP propagation -- 
no-one could guarantee that all messages within a particular thread 
would reach all servers and all recipients, so the practice of 
quoting started. This way, if a thread message went AWOL (as they 
often did, and still do) subsequent messages would still contain 
relevant content, thus most thread followers would not miss out on 
stuff.



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Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

[phoenix]

Quoth sandra ragan :

> In Safari I found that there is a pref setting for sending your
> signature to the bottom

In /Safari/? Please don't mistake this for nit-picking, but I'm
genuinely curious if it's Safari (the web browser) or Mail.app that you're
talking about -- or some other program. I don't think I've seen a toggle
like this in Safari preferences. [grins]


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Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

[mike kochkodin]

--- Laurent Daudelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

> We just got words from Dan, the List Mom, about the
> top-bottom posting issue
> and here is what he said:
> 
> " The rule applies regardless of the default
> behavior of any given email
> client. We established the rule for four reasons:
> 
> 1. It's logical. It shows the flow from message to
> response.
> 
> 2. It makes it possible to read a reply without
> having to skip past the
> new text to read the quoted material it's responding
> to. If the thread
> hasn't been active for a day or two - or you've been
> away from email
> over the weekend - this is very helpful.
> 
> 3. Bottom posting forces people to see how much
> they're quoting and
> should act as a visual reminder not to quote
> everything.
> 
> 4. Finally, it's nice to have consistency.
> 
> This is all about best practices, not default email
> software behavior.
> 
> Dan "
> 
> So, folks, better get used to it. I am not happy to
> have to remind people
> but we've been asked to so I'm just carrying on.
> 
> Let's not turn this into a debate as to whether top
> or bottom posting is
> best, OK?
Just my $.02  BUT Netscape Mail has the option  to set
your reply either above, below, or select the specific
quote to reply to...It is located in the Account
Settings section/Composition
Regards,
Mike K in Central PA


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Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

[Brian L. Matthews]

If you can modify your signature, you can also add 2 '-' characters at the
beginning of a line, just above your name and signature.


The standard is "-- " (dash dash space) on a line by itself. See RFC 
3676 for instance.


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Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

[Laurent Daudelin]

On 03/02/06 15:02, "sandra ragan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:
> 
>> " The rule applies regardless of the default behavior of any given
>> email
>> client. We established the rule for four reasons:
> 
> In Safari I found that there is a pref setting for sending your
> signature to the bottom (I added an extra line of empty space above my
> signature) ... and for the option to quote only selected text that
> seems to have simplifies the "top posting" problem for me : )
> 

If you can modify your signature, you can also add 2 '-' characters at the
beginning of a line, just above your name and signature. Many email clients
and news readers will honor this when automatically quoting by omitting
everything that follows those 2 '-' characters on a single line, which will
make the life of others easier since they won't have to delete the extra
text when they reply to one of your messages.

Like this:

--

-Laurent.
-- 

Laurent Daudelin Developer, Multifamily, ESO, Fannie Mae
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Washington, DC, USA
 Usual disclaimers apply ***


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Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

[sandra ragan]

On Feb 3, 2006, at 8:52 AM, Laurent Daudelin wrote:

" The rule applies regardless of the default behavior of any given 
email

client. We established the rule for four reasons:


In Safari I found that there is a pref setting for sending your 
signature to the bottom (I added an extra line of empty space above my 
signature) ... and for the option to quote only selected text that 
seems to have simplifies the "top posting" problem for me : )


Sandra Ragan
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