[wellylug] OT: And here some food for thought for our Outlook-using top-posting friends :)

[David Murray]

On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Mark Foster wrote:

> Apparently.
>
> I'd just like to point out that people who are forced to use Outlook at work 
> for example, are often in a situation where installing third party apps (such 
> as Quotefix) is actually forbidden.
>
> So the harping is often in vain, except for those who actually use Outlook in 
> a non-corporate-IT-environment. (And how many of those are there?)
>
> Ala 'get over it'.  The only condition I reccomend for people who have to 
> reply in a top=-posting manner is that they are very selective with what they 
> quote, removing the confusion of multiple quoting layers with mixed types...
>
>
>
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2006, Ian Beardslee wrote:
>
>> friggin' hell do we still have retards going on about top and bottom 
>> posting??
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: andrej at paradise.net.nz
>> To: "wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz" <wellylug at lists.wellylug.org.nz>
>> Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2006 14:06:15 +1300 (NZDT)
>> Subject: [wellylug] OT: And here some food for thought for our
>> Outlook-using top-posting friends :)
>> 
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting
>>> and some remedy :}
>>> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/


But surely they can still simply place the cursor underneath the orignal 
message and put their reply there like logical people... can't they?

;o)


Cheers

David Murray