Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

2006-02-04 Thread 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

Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

2006-02-03 Thread Laurent Daudelin
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

Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

2006-02-03 Thread 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

Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

2006-02-03 Thread 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

Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

2006-02-03 Thread 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. Brian -- G-Books is sponsored by http://lowendmac.com/ and... Small Dog

Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

2006-02-03 Thread 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

Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

2006-02-03 Thread 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

Re: Top-Bottom Posting Clarification

2006-02-03 Thread 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