Re: [libreoffice-users] Top Posting... Can we have an LO Mailing List Guidelines Page?

On 2011-09-08, Dennis E. Hamilton wrote:
> You'll also notice that my reply doesn't have an additional set of
> brackets, so in-line commenting makes it very difficult to know what
> is new comment and what is from the previous message.

> From Dennis' message headers:
> X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 14.0

Yeah, that's a problem with Outlook, it wants to force top-posting and
screw attribution so hard that it becomes harder to understand who wrote
what.

Even if Outlook users plan to use top-posting, Outlook-QuoteFix is still
a good way to get rid of some problems with quoting and attribution
lines, including the broken reindentation.

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/

(Disclaimer: I didn't try this. My system is not even able to run
Outlook, let alone having it installed.)


> PS: It is often handy to see the answer first.  I can quickly
> determine whether or not I care what the question is.

Forty-two.

>  And if I know
> what the general run of a thread has been, I don't need to see the
> rest of the message except to check for blankety-blank inline but
> unannounced comments.

Well, I don't think anything without a preceding attribution mark is
"unannounced", at least before the first line with "-- "...

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Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)
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