On 8/12/05, Desi Penguin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/11/05, Swapnil Nagle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know that messages get rejected just because the reply starts at the > > > top rather than *after* the original post (which in itself is > > > ridiculous rule, but I respect it none-the-less) > > > > Why is it ridiculous ? > > because most standard mail clients, like outlook as well as gmail, > start the editing on top of the original email. > because people start writing and reading from top to bottom.
The mailers you give examples are infact standards incompliant in this respect you can take a look at email standard by IETF yourself http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2822.html here is also a good comment on the topic by couple of arm-linux guies, http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/mailinglists/etiquette.php#e3 The comment is in genral good and quick read before you post a message. BAIN -- ______________________________________________________________________ Pune GNU/Linux Users Group Mailing List: (plug-mail@plug.org.in) List Information: http://plug.org.in/mailing-list/listinfo/plug-mail Send 'help' to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for mailing instructions.
