Reply etiquete & top posting
 

Can you help please what setting do I use in Outlook to automatically put in
text around a sender's name when I hit "reply"?

Also to ensure top posting.

e.g. "thus spake xxxxxxxxx. to the assembled multitude..."

Many thanks

Mike

"Mike Terry" wrote in message
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Can you help please what setting do I use in Outlook to automatically put
in
text around a sender's name when I hit "reply"?

Also to ensure top posting.

I really hope you mean "bottom posting"...

Mike Terry schrieb:

Can you help please what setting do I use in Outlook to automatically put in
text around a sender's name when I hit "reply"?

This cannot be modified in OE out of the box, AFAIK. However, it seems
to be possible with OE-Quotefix (a must-have for OE users).

Also to ensure top posting.

I assume you meant *bottom* posting, i.e. quotes first? Wouldn't make
much sense to have a fancy attribution line otherwise.

e.g. "thus spake xxxxxxxxx. to the assembled multitude..."

Be careful not to make the attribution line too long.

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Mike Terry wrote:
Can you help please what setting do I use in Outlook to automatically
put in text around a sender's name when I hit "reply"?

Also to ensure top posting.


You can't.

However download and install Quote Fix, then you can configure
that, to configure OE, to do so.

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

Mark Carver wrote:

However download and install Quote Fix, then you can configure
that, to configure OE, to do so.

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

Woo! Thanks for that, it's great!

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Lewis

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 08:03:03 +0000, Mike Terry wrote:

Can you help please what setting do I use in Outlook to automatically put in
text around a sender's name when I hit "reply"?

Also to ensure top posting.

e.g. "thus spake xxxxxxxxx. to the assembled multitude..."

Many thanks

Mike

Hi,


You might want to investigate Sylpheed-claws:


http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/win32/


far more stable and sophisticated than OE, and with *none* of its
ridiculous security flaws.

This set of screenshots will give you an idea of how customizable it is:

http://sylpheed-claws.sourceforge.net/screenshots.php


Sean

" I really hope you mean "bottom posting"...

Oops!! Yes I do.

Mike

Mark Carver wrote:

You can't.

However download and install Quote Fix, then you can configure
that, to configure OE, to do so.

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

I have done it and its great, as above.

Many thanks Mark

Mike

Use a real newsreader, Like Forte Free Agent :-p

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Top posting is fine.



"altgrr" wrote in message
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"Mike Terry" wrote in message
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Can you help please what setting do I use in Outlook to automatically
put
in
text around a sender's name when I hit "reply"?

Also to ensure top posting.

I really hope you mean "bottom posting"...

CW schrieb:

Top posting is fine.

No, it isn't. It's BS.

www.forteinc.com

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:18:33 GMT, Gregg wrote:

Use a real newsreader, Like Forte Free Agent :-p

It is becomming more prevelent all the time. It make sense. When you meet
someone and they say "how ae you?" do you respond "how are you, I am fine,
and you"? Try it for a day. Everytime someone says somethng to you repeat it
back to them before responding.


"Stephan Grossklass" wrote in message
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CW schrieb:

Top posting is fine.

No, it isn't. It's BS.

On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:38:01 GMT, "CW"
wrote:

It is becomming more prevelent all the time. It make sense. When you meet
someone and they say "how ae you?" do you respond "how are you, I am fine,
and you"? Try it for a day. Everytime someone says somethng to you repeat it
back to them before responding.


Hmmm... try reading a book, paragraph at a time, from the back.

-fb-

funkbastler wrote:
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:38:01 GMT, "CW"
wrote:


It is becomming more prevelent all the time. It make sense. When you meet
someone and they say "how ae you?" do you respond "how are you, I am fine,
and you"? Try it for a day. Everytime someone says somethng to you repeat it
back to them before responding.



Hmmm... try reading a book, paragraph at a time, from the back.

-fb-



Try going to the end of the book to find the beginning.
-bm-

This anlogy always comes up and is stupid. It is more like try reading a
book that every time you turn the page, the sast paragraph from the previous
page is repeated before moving on. I don't know about you, but I can
remember something from one post to another. If I have forgotten a detail, I
can always look below and refresh my memory but if someone bottom posts, I
am forced to look past things I have already read to get to the part I'm
looking for.


"funkbastler" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:38:01 GMT, "CW"
wrote:


Hmmm... try reading a book, paragraph at a time, from the back.

-fb-

Good shot.


"--exray--" wrote in message
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funkbastler wrote:



Hmmm... try reading a book, paragraph at a time, from the back.

-fb-



Try going to the end of the book to find the beginning.
-bm-

"--exray--" wrote in message
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Try going to the end of the book to find the beginning.
-bm-


We've got books like that here at our place.. :)

Is that the legendary "circular book" :)


"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"--exray--" wrote in message
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Try going to the end of the book to find the beginning.
-bm-


We've got books like that here at our place.. :)

Yes they should but often don't. Doesn't matter whether I am skipping over a
little or a lot, I shouldn't have to skip over anything. The days of 9600
baud modems and days between replies are over. Bottom posting is no longer
necessary.


"Jack" wrote in message
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If people snipped properly, that wouldn't be a problem.

"CW" wrote in message
news:XVGkb.594163$Oz4.583722@rwcrnsc54...
Is that the legendary "circular book" :)

Nope, we have some Japanese books (even those written in English) which
start from the back of the book, and read forward. Most oriental languages
(and therefor, their books) are written right to left, top to bottom.

CW wrote:

Yes they should but often don't. Doesn't matter whether I am skipping over a
little or a lot, I shouldn't have to skip over anything. The days of 9600
baud modems and days between replies are over. Bottom posting is no longer
necessary.

"Jack" wrote in message
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If people snipped properly, that wouldn't be a problem.

Snipping is a good thing.

Bottom posting helps when threads branch out in different directions, and when people reply to a message that's not recent.

Your memory problems are none of my concern.




"Jack" wrote in message
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On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 22:04:33 -0400, "Mark S. Holden"
wrote:

snip

"Jack" wrote in message
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If people snipped properly, that wouldn't be a problem.

Snipping is a good thing.

Bottom posting helps when threads branch out in different directions,
and when people reply to a message that's not recent.

Definitely. Many people come into the thread or its derivatives late,
and don't have access to the older posts in the thread. Things get
really confused in any system where the effect precedes its cause.
Especially in complex systems like ongoing multiple-direction threads.

Hate to say it but I get as lazy as the top-posters when dealing with
top posts to a long thread. I skip over any one-line top-posted reply
that I have to page down several pages to understand what they're
replying about. All they want to do is save themselves some work at
cost to the subsequent readers.

IMNSHO. JMTC. YMMV. PSHWOTR. and other classic Usenet acronyms).

"David" wrote in message
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www.forteinc.com

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 20:18:33 GMT, Gregg wrote:

Use a real newsreader, Like Forte Free Agent :-p


What? And break Bill's heart?

Slight cruel streak, eh?