> What is it about tech bulletin boards where folks seem to want the most > relevant stuff -- > the new stuff -- at the BOTTOM???
The question contains assumptions contrary to fact. In the standard interspersed quoting style, the relevant stuff Immediately follows the text that it is in response to. > I *like* Outlook. It's not my dog. The people on the boards that you're complaining about don't, and whining won't make them like it. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Charles Mills [charl...@mcn.org] Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 1:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Quote style (was: ... Passive FTP ... ) What is it with tech bulletin boards and the fuss about top-posting? I will bet I have gotten tens of thousands of business e-mail replies in my life and every single one of them was "top-posted." What is it about tech bulletin boards where folks seem to want the most relevant stuff -- the new stuff -- at the BOTTOM??? I *like* Outlook. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 9:54 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Quote style (was: ... Passive FTP ... ) On Sat, 13 Jun 2020 13:17:11 +0000, Jackson, Rob wrote: >My cruddy email application (Outlook) doesn't do the >-style quoting (or at >least I don't know how to make it), so let me try below with tabs; it will >probably be ugly. > Does First Horizon require you to use Outlook? I mostly post from the LISTSERV Web interface. Does it enforce top-posting? Does it prohibit editing quoted text, heaps of legal disclaimers and all? >First Horizon Bank >Mainframe Technical Support -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
