On Monday 28 February 2011 15:02:51 shawn wilson wrote: > On Feb 28, 2011 3:37 PM, "Ron Johnson" <ron.l.john...@cox.net> wrote: > > On 02/28/2011 02:29 PM, Celejar wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> Shawn: I've noticed that all your emails seem to include the quoting > >> carat '>' on the first line of your response. Is your editor > >> misconfigured? > > > > gmail misconfigured?? <snicker> > > Gmail any way it comes. All of my email has been in the cloud for the last > decade. > > But, just curious is there an 'ap guideline' for proper mailing list > submissions somewhere? I don't think I'm going to be able to change gmail > but I'd like to know when something is foobar all the same.
There's only one standard that comes quoting rules. It is the RFC that covers the text/plain option format=flowed. Unfortunately, it doesn't really cover the practicalities of the issue, in particular spaces in between right-angle- brackets confuses the algorithm provided. Wikipedia actually has a pretty good article about posting styles. This mailing list doesn't have official policy. But, the majority seem to use and prefer trimmed, interleaved replies with trimmed, bottom-posted coming in second and trimmed, top-posting coming in third. TOFU (Top-posted Over Full- quoted Under), which seems to be a favorite in certain corporate environments is frowned upon. For mailing lists and back-and-forth exchanges, the trimmed, interleaved style makes a lot of sense. For other environments, it may not be correct. Note that a mailer that encourages trimmed, interleaved replies populates the message window with the full reply and starts you cursor at the *top* of it, so you can move down through the message trimming or inserting your reply as needed. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/ \_/
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