Top posting solution

[Chuck Swiger]

Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> On 2004-08-10 18:14, JJB <Barbish3 at adelphia.net> wrote:
[ ...badly quoted stuff... ]
> I apologize in advance if I jump in in what might sound like a
> knit-picking manner.  However, if this "fix" produces messages like the
> one above, where all the usual mutilation of Outlook regarding quoting
> and wrapping the text is clearly visible...
> 
> it's not a fix :-(

Giorgos-- it would be reasonable to assume that JJB was using the tool he 
speaks of, only that would not be correct; oe-quotefix doesn't work with 
Outlook itself:

] From: JJB <Barbish3 at adelphia.net>
] Subject: RE: Top posting solution
] Message-id: <MIEPLLIBMLEEABPDBIEGOENNGIAA.Barbish3 at adelphia.net>
] X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409
] X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.6604 (9.0.2911.0)

[ Only someone condemned to support Windows users would want to understand the 
relationship between Outlook and OE in more detail, so suffice it to say that 
the two are much more different than one might expect from the shared name. ]

Anyway, the oe-quotefix utility actually does do a pretty good job of fixing 
the braindead quoting of Outlook Express.  But I'd much rather use Mozilla 
than Outlook from the standpoints of both security and only mildly broken mail 
composition by comparision.  But then, I'd rather use Mail.app than Mozilla. 
For that matter, I'd rather use Emacs with fill-mode on and fill-column set to 
76-- for two levels of quoting and a space to fit into 80-cols without 
wrapping-- to actually compose ASCII text than anything else.

oe-quotefix behaves very much like what M-q (fill-paragraph) does in Emacs.

-- 
-Chuck