Re: Quoting styles, cont (Was Re: Fonts in GTK)

[ktb <x.y.f@home.com>]

On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 08:48:22AM -0700, Craig Dickson wrote:
> Bud Rogers wrote:
> 
> > Except that in this case we're not talking about a practice that was
> > not previously common or even not so common. We're talking about a
> > practice that was virtually unknown until Microsoft flooded the market
> > with badly broken mail and news clients that make it very difficult to
> > properly quote or attribute anything.
> 
> True. In this situation, I wouldn't use the word "deprecated". I would
> just say that putting one's reply above the original message makes one
> look like an idiot.

I like that...lol.  I remember when I first started using linux I posted
to some list, probably this one.  I wanted to know how to set Netscape
mail to default, like outlook, to appending my text to the top of the
message.  You can imagine what response I got:D
kent

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