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Re: I hate MOCPages
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lugnet.general
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Thu, 2 Sep 2004 18:16:41 GMT
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On 14:06 09/02/04, Dan Boger wrote
> On Thu, Sep 02, 2004 at 05:56:54PM +0000, Alfred Speredelozzi wrote:
> > <unrelated rant>
> > P.S. Lugnet tells me this when I go to post:
> > "You added your reply at the top of the message. Proper netiquette • suggests that
> > you add your reply at the bottom of the message so that people can read • the text
> > in natural order from top to bottom."
> >
> > I actually don't agree with this at all. I hate reading meaasages • where you
> > have to scroll throught the trail to get to the new content. I don't • actually
> > think this is a consistent netiquette either, as I see many interent • posters
> > using the opposite convention: new material at the top of the post.
>
> 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.
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 crazy
formatting to the message and makes it worse...
I've tried to train people at my office how to interleave replies with the
original comments (and fix the weird format problem). You'd think I was
teaching them how to talk Klingon... :-/
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| (...) 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)
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| (...) 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)
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