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Bo Peng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK. I found the messages and I am not glad about those so-called
> rules.
These so-called rules are called "netiquette". Heard of it?
> I THINK it is better to put the reply BEFORE quoted text and this
> has nothing to do with M$.
How odd. I THINK it is better to put the reply AFTER the quoted text
and this has absolutely _nothing_ to do with M$.
> It is natural (to me) to put important part (my reply) before
> non-important part (quote) and keep my signature closer to the main
> body. This also makes an email easier to read if the quote is long.
First of all, quote is _not_ supposed to be long. The quoted text
should only contain the important parts, i.e. providing the context.
Quotes should be trimmed so, that you preserve a parts of quoted text
which contain something the previous writer said that you want to
comment to. Quoted text should _never_ be left untrimmed.
> If mutt does not have this function, it is perfectly fine. But there
> is nothing wrong with M$ to provide it!
I think there's plenty of wrong there, that M$ Outlook encourages
its users to quote the whole goddamn message (and eventually the whole
goddamn thread). If you are writing in Usenet or in mailing lists, you
should know the guidelines of what is a Good Thing and what is not.
Top-posting definitely isn't a Good Thing and neither is untrimmed
quotes.
By the way -- by all means, place your signature on top of your
mails! But please, remember to use correct signature delimiter ("-- ",
that is "dash-dash-space")! O:-)
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Jussi Ekholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://erppimaa.ihku.org/> | <0x1410081E>
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