In Outlook, it's File -> Options -> Mal, scroll down a bit to Replies and Forwarding
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Jackson, Rob > Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 11:58 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Quote style > > Tom, always the voice of reason. > > See below for my comment indicated by the less-than sign (open, angled > bracket); that should be just the equivalent of > appearing on the quoted > lines, right? > > First Horizon Bank > Mainframe Technical Support > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On > Behalf Of Tom Brennan > Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 2:03 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Quote style > > [External Email. Exercise caution when clicking links or opening attachments.] > > Tom's opinion: Top posting is like a meeting where one person talks, > everybody hears it, and the conversation continues without having to explain > the whole meeting each time. When someone new comes along though, it > would be nice to have a chronological history of what happened before - > that's bottom posting. And that includes archiving when the "someone new" > might be reading the conversation years later. > > I like top posting because most of my work is real-time conversations. > If someone really wants bottom posting to catch up or for whatever reason, > then it doesn't seem too hard for them to make a script or find a program to > reverse the order of the conversation locally. I do that manually every once > in a while when someone at work says, "Tom, can you go through this > month-long email thread and try to help?" Ouch. So the first thing I do is > start with a notepad window open and make notes from the bottom up, not > only reversing the email string, but also trying to weed out only what I > really > need to better understand the issue. > > Now I sometimes do a combination like Curtis just did, where I'll include > portions of the original email and make comments underneath each portion. > I'll usually do that by top posting with a copy/paste of just the part I'm > referencing. I rarely do the "See my response in red/green/blue below" > intermixed in the entire original email. When people do that to me, I often > have trouble finding that one little red word somewhere in the pile. > > < Really? It always seems to work a lot better than this silliness. Red > sticks > out like a sore thumb to me. :) > > On 6/13/2020 10:21 AM, Charles Mills wrote: > > 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- > [email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > > Sent: Saturday, June 13, 2020 9:54 AM > > To: [email protected] > > 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Confidentiality > notice: > This e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain legally > privileged and/or confidential information. 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