Hello Jonathan, On 04 Aug 2002 08:55:13 -0500 GMT (04/08/02, 20:55 +0700 GMT), Jonathan Angliss wrote:
>> You are not forced to reply at the top and bottom quote the whole >> message replied to. It is still no big effort to reply inline. JA> The problem doing that is with Outlook you have to go change a whole JA> bundle of settings so the reply is tagged with > or some other type of JA> separator for replies otherwise you'll get inline text, and it is *very* JA> difficult if skim reading to tell the difference between reply, and JA> original posting. Ups, so I am wrong and it has to do with the default setting of OL. (Can't MS get *anything* right?) >> E> I prefer top-replying, don't often re-read the original post, >> >> This may make sense in a tech support kind of environment, this this >> here is a mailing list. Quote the paragraph you are replying to, and >> put your reply under that paragraph. Make life easier for people who >> want to read your postings on this list. Please. JA> Even in the environment I work in where I reply to a lot of technical JA> support questions I use top quoting as often several questions are JA> asked, As I said, in some business enviroenments it makes sense, in others not. >> (The exception I make is the web interface. JA> I have to agree. I was without a computer for the first two months back in Thailand, and had to use web interfaces in internet cafes exclusively. In the beginning, my postings included an apoligy for top-replying, then people knew. Boy, am I glad to have my computer back. :-))) -- Cheers, Thomas. Moderator der deutschen The Bat! Beginner Liste. For those of you who have children and don't know it, we have a nursery downstairs. Message reply created with The Bat! 1.62/Beta1 under Chinese Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 A using an AMD Athlon K7 1.2GHz, 128MB RAM ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.61 FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Bug Reports: https://www.ritlabs.com/bt/
