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    Re: I hate MOCPages —Alfred Speredelozzi
   I agree with your suggestions. In fact, I think it helps cut down the trash on Lugnet becuase you have to be registered to post, AND Lugnet always shows your real name. Yea, we still get trash (and different people will judge what is trash (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: I hate MOCPages —Dan Boger
     (...) See - there's your problem. Replying on the bottom makes a lot of sense, as long as you TRIM THE QOUTED TEXT. Not you in particular Alfred, but everyone. If people just hit <end> and type their text, there's no point. For instance, did you (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
    
         Re: I hate MOCPages —Stephen F. Roberts
      On 14:06 09/02/04, Dan Boger wrote (...) Blame MicroSoft (again :-)... stoopid Outlook has trained people to reply at the top of messages. It makes it hard to figure out what they are talking about. If you try to interleave your comments it does (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: I hate MOCPages —Jason Spears
       (...) nuqDaq yuch Dapol! -Jason (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
     
          Re: I hate MOCPages —Don Heyse
      (...) Oh, Oh, teach me! So, how do you set Outlook to do the right thing? I always have to cutNpaste things into an emacs window and reformat, then interleave the replies, and paste it all back. And even then, Outlook always wants to show how smart (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
     
          Re: I hate MOCPages —Stephen F. Roberts
       On 14:31 09/02/04, Don Heyse wrote (...) When you hit reply, it does that stoopid indent thing. You just have to go down to where you want to insert things and use the "decrease indent" (has a little left arrow beside some horizontal bars). You may (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
     
          Re: I hate MOCPages —Anders Isaksson
      (...) Get OE-QuoteFix (or Outlook-quotefix) from (URL) Outlook (and Express) behaves like a real program... (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
     
          Re: I hate MOCPages —Peter Ehrlich
      (...) Or, you could use Mozilla Thunderbird for email. (URL) it free (it is opensource): (URL) (20 years ago, 4-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: I hate MOCPages —Bruce Hietbrink
      (...) In lugnet.general, Stephen F. Roberts wrote: (...) I don't think it's only that. In my workplace, the general practice is to always include the whole text of the message to which you are responding, but to put the new content at the top. The (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
    
         Re: I hate MOCPages —Doug Eaton
     (...) I totally missed Alfred's rant because he replied at the top. When new text is at the top of a message, I automatically assume there is nothing new further down because very few messages do. If the first line of a message begins a quote (such (...) (20 years ago, 3-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: I hate MOCPages —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) I think there's a HUGE amount of merit in that. Sites that allow handles just aren't as pleasant, everything else being equal, in my view (...) Yes, Perhaps only allow registered users to comment for starters. Maybe even require a donation too (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.general)
   
        Re: I hate MOCPages —Alfred Speredelozzi
   (...) At least registered users, with a real name. A donation will sort out a lot more than I would want, I think. (...) Less comments is ok with me. There are only two comments I like for my MOCs: - Simply positive messgaes "Gee that's great" or (...) (20 years ago, 2-Sep-04, to lugnet.publish)
 

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