topposting (was: colourization in ls command)

Tom Connolly tomc at cqg.com
Fri Oct 15 08:35:20 PDT 2004


Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> On Tuesday, 12 October 2004 at 17:09:29 -0600, Tom Connolly wrote:
>>>>> Top posting is generally frowned-upon.  People who indulge in it
>>>>> are shown to be Microsoft Outlook users, because that is the
>>>>> default of Outlook.
>> 
>> There is a nice little tool for Outlook users, created by Dominik
>> Jain, that will modify An MS Outlook message to allow for "correct
>> quoting".  Just hit forward, reply or reply all
>> And the tool does the rest...
>> 
>> http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
> 
> We've seen the results of this tool in the recent past.  They weren't
> convincing. 
> 
> Are you aware that your message was formatted with long/short lines?
> 
> Greg

Looks ok to me.

Tom



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