Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

--NU0Ex4SbNnrxsi6C Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alas! David T-G spake thus: > It's not that it doesn't work (and you can even set it to "% " easily > enough :-) but that modifying the original message by line-q

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

I think this all stems from people not trimming away quoted material. If everyone's going to quote pages of needless text, it makes sense to put your replies at the top; otherwise you'd have to skip past pages of worthless filler to get to the actual message. When was the last time you saw someon

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

At 12:13 AM EST on February 7 Rob 'Feztaa' Park sent off: > I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies > after the quote, The Right Way. > So what do you guys think now? Lusers forced into poor quoting by > default settings they don't know how to change, or lusers s

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:13:31PM -0700, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > So what do you guys think now? Lusers forced into poor quoting by > default settings they don't know how to change, or lusers stubbornly > refusing to do anything resembling intelligent behavior? I think that "lusers" quote poo

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

> Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 22:50:30 -0700 > From: "Rob 'Feztaa' Park" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way. > To: Mutt Users List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Really, though: this isn

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

Rob, et al -- ...and then Feztaa said... % % I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies % after the quote, The Right Way. She uses LookOut, of course, and doesn't % like the default quote style that it uses. She says that the way I do it % is "so cool". I, too, hav

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

Rob, et al -- ...and then Feztaa said... % % Alas! Ken Weingold spake thus: % > Well first you need to get the new O'Reilly book: % > . % % ROFL, I want that book ;) Indeed! % % > Second, as you may know, you can actually get Outlook to quote % > prop

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

Ken, et al -- ...and then Ken Weingold said... % % On Wed, Feb 6, 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: % > I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies ... % > So what do you guys think now? Lusers forced into poor quoting by % > default settings they don't know how to cha

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

Alas! Kenneth Pronovici spake thus: > As much as I'd like to blame Outlook here, I've had this experience > and it hasn't been Outlook so much as a user issue. The user was just > inserting right into the middle of the paragraph, actually on the > > lines, without understanding what the > charact

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

> Ah, then she is messing something up. :) Outlook will complain, but > it will do it. And it will quote properly if you set it to. Worked > for me at my last job, where I had to use Outlook. Also make sure she > is sending in plain text, and not that rich text crap. As much as I'd like to b

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > > Plus when you set quoting to "> " in the options, every time you are > > in that dialog box and hit Ok, it will complain. :-/ > > Really? The messages I get from her seem to be quoted with "> " > properly, she just doesn't know how to actually wr

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

On Wed, 06 Feb 2002, Jeremy Blosser wrote: [snip] > Don't know to change or even if they do, can't really. If I started > quoting the right way at work, it would confuse people to no end... they > wouldn't know where to find my response inside of Outlook's awful message > display interface (mar

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

--XIiC+We3v3zHqZ6Z Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alas! Jeremy Blosser spake thus: > If I started quoting the right way at work, it would confuse people > to no end... they wouldn't know where to find my response

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

--Uwl7UQhJk99r8jnw Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Alas! Ken Weingold spake thus: > Well first you need to get the new O'Reilly book: > . =20 ROFL, I want that book ;) > Sec

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2002, Jeremy Blosser wrote: > Don't know to change or even if they do, can't really. If I started > quoting the right way at work, it would confuse people to no end... they > wouldn't know where to find my response inside of Outlook's awful message > display interface (marking rep

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

* Rob 'Feztaa' Park ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [Feb 07. 2002 00:11]: [...] > or lusers stubbornly refusing to do anything resembling intelligent > behavior? Have you taken a good look at php-general lately? Someone let the flood gates down. -- Brian Clark | Unable to leap tall buildings in a sing

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

On Wed, Feb 6, 2002, Rob 'Feztaa' Park wrote: > I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies > after the quote, The Right Way. She uses LookOut, of course, and doesn't > like the default quote style that it uses. She says that the way I do it > is "so cool". > > I'm g

Re: Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

On Feb 06, Rob 'Feztaa' Park [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: > I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies > after the quote, The Right Way. She uses LookOut, of course, and doesn't > like the default quote style that it uses. She says that the way I do it > is "so cool". >

Breaking News: Lusers _want_ to quote email replies The Right Way.

I just got an email from a nondescript luser asking how I put my replies after the quote, The Right Way. She uses LookOut, of course, and doesn't like the default quote style that it uses. She says that the way I do it is "so cool". I'm going to turn this into another reason why she ought to be u