John Aldrich napisal(a): > Actually, Microsoft makes it VERY difficult to do "netiquette-compliant" > replies by not marking the quoted material as quoted the way most other mail > clients do it. And, since I'm here as a *volunteer* helping out when/where I > can, I will reply in the manner which requires the least amount of effort. > Sorry, I get paid to do other things. I help out here because I've received > a lot of help and want to give back. You got a problem with that, take it up > with Wez at RealVNC. He's the de-facto list admin here. If he asks me to go > away, I'll do so and only post here for questions.
Please don't take it personally, since my request wasn't directed specifically to you, but to all who use this style of quoting. Myself I also voluntarily help in many mailing lists and newsgroups, and that's the reason why easy following the discussion is so important to me. Since the number of poorly formatted replies on this list grew in last days to an amount that made impossible (at least for me) to follow the conversations, I mentioned this issue. By the way, I even know a few moderated lists/groups where posts formatted with "top-quoting" are unconditionally rejected by the moderators, regardless of their content. This is usually the number 1 reason of a post rejection in these groups. As for Microsoft, I do not know about the "big" Outlook from the Office package, but Outlook Express surely has the option to mark the quoted text with ">". I used it for a few years, as I already wrote. You need to disable HTML mail for this and switch to plain text, but who in the world sends HTML mail to mailing lists anyway? (Mailing list server serving this list strips out HTML part, even if you send it to list). I agree that preceding each quoted line with ">" manually would be unfeasible. Happily, Outlook does this by itself - the only things that must be done manually are deleting unwanted lines and moving the cursor from the top to the bottom... Regards, Jaroslaw Rafa [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Spam, wirusy, spyware... masz do6f? Jest alternatywa! http://www.firefox.pl/ --- http://www.thunderbird.pl/ Szybciej. #atwiej. Bezpieczniej. Internet tak jak lubisz. _______________________________________________ VNC-List mailing list VNC-List@realvnc.com To remove yourself from the list visit: http://www.realvnc.com/mailman/listinfo/vnc-list
