Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-23 Thread Tom Stoudt
On 2/19/2010 1:10 PM, Kurt previously said: Yet everyone here extols the virtues of bottom posting. Your supposed to post especially in emails to what the receiver is accustomed to. Not your ridged guidelines as what is prim proper. Exactly why I wanted to know how to change. Most people

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-23 Thread Rufus
Tom Stoudt wrote: On 2/19/2010 1:10 PM, Kurt previously said: Yet everyone here extols the virtues of bottom posting. Your supposed to post especially in emails to what the receiver is accustomed to. Not your ridged guidelines as what is prim proper. Exactly why I wanted to know how to

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread MCBastos
Interviewed by CNN on 19/2/2010 01:50, Paul B. Gallagher told the world: I had a client write me in January after I had interspersed my respective replies after each paragraph of his message: I always wanted to ask you to write your response above my message and not mix with my original

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread Phillip Jones
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Kurt wrote: When I reply to an email, the text cursor is way down at the bottom of the email. I believe all my contacts that use Microsoft email and have grown accustomed to replies being at the beginning of the email will be confounded by replies

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread Kurt
Yet everyone here extols the virtues of bottom posting. Your supposed to   post especially in emails to what the receiver is accustomed to. Not your ridged guidelines as what is prim proper. Exactly why I wanted to know how to change. Most people getting my emails are using Outlook. Thanks

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread William Morrison
Phillip Jones wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Kurt wrote: When I reply to an email, the text cursor is way down at the bottom of the email. I believe all my contacts that use Microsoft email and have grown accustomed to replies being at the beginning of the email will be

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
MCBastos wrote: My guess is that your client doesn't really grok how the quote marks work, and so kept having to reference his original message to you in the sent messages folder, like if you hadn't quoted his message at all. Yeh, that's how I took it, too. -- War doesn't determine who's

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Phillip Jones wrote: And you did notice this part above . I always wanted to ask you to *write your response above my message* and *not mix with my original text*. It takes me a long time to read your response and often I just give up. Yet everyone here extols the virtues of bottom

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread Phillip Jones
William Morrison wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Kurt wrote: When I reply to an email, the text cursor is way down at the bottom of the email. I believe all my contacts that use Microsoft email and have grown accustomed to replies being at the

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread Phillip Jones
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: And you did notice this part above . I always wanted to ask you to *write your response above my message* and *not mix with my original text*. It takes me a long time to read your response and often I just give up. Yet everyone here

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Phillip Jones wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: And then the recipient, following the same principle, should reply to me in my system (bottom posting), creating an incomprehensible hodge-podge when I top-post for his benefit in reply. He does so because that he assumes that how you want

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-19 Thread Phillip Jones
Paul B. Gallagher wrote: Phillip Jones wrote: Paul B. Gallagher wrote: And then the recipient, following the same principle, should reply to me in my system (bottom posting), creating an incomprehensible hodge-podge when I top-post for his benefit in reply. He does so because that he

Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-18 Thread Kurt
When I reply to an email, the text cursor is way down at the bottom of the email. I believe all my contacts that use Microsoft email and have grown accustomed to replies being at the beginning of the email will be confounded by replies at the end of the email. When I jump up to begin the reply it

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-18 Thread Rufus
Kurt wrote: When I reply to an email, the text cursor is way down at the bottom of the email. I believe all my contacts that use Microsoft email and have grown accustomed to replies being at the beginning of the email will be confounded by replies at the end of the email. When I jump up to begin

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-18 Thread Phillip Jones
Kurt wrote: When I reply to an email, the text cursor is way down at the bottom of the email. I believe all my contacts that use Microsoft email and have grown accustomed to replies being at the beginning of the email will be confounded by replies at the end of the email. When I jump up to begin

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-18 Thread Paul B. Gallagher
Phillip Jones wrote: Kurt wrote: When I reply to an email, the text cursor is way down at the bottom of the email. I believe all my contacts that use Microsoft email and have grown accustomed to replies being at the beginning of the email will be confounded by replies at the end of the email.

Re: Email Replies Backwards

2010-02-18 Thread user
Kurt wrote: When I reply to an email, the text cursor is way down at the bottom of the email. I believe all my contacts that use Microsoft email and have grown accustomed to replies being at the beginning of the email will be confounded by replies at the end of the email. When I jump up to begin