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Re: Top posting (a different point of view)



On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:45:43PM +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote:
> 
> More importantly, I think it would be difficult to use bottom-posting with 
> html mail or rtf text or whatever it is called. And while plain text is 
> better in most situations, I have to admit there are situations where 
> formatted text can be useful. For example, sometimes you want to include 
> an image at a certain position in the e-mail, underline, make text bold, 
> color a certain text, include links without cluttering the text with long 
> http addresses. I use that when I paste code snippets and colored code 
> diffs, include links to defect reports etc in my daily work. And I 
> suppose we shouldn't forget all the other non-technical people who want 
> to format their e-mails with background images and fancy type faces. 
> Anyway, finding a technical solution that allows that to be combined with 
> bottom-posting would probably be difficult to implement, although I would 
> love to see it. Sadly Lotus Notes doesn't seem to handle it very well, 
> same as Outlook and the like.
> 

Check this out:

- *bold*
- _underline_
- image:
                                .''`.
                               : :' :
                               `. `'
                                 `-

    Figure 1: High resolution, photo-realistic Debian swirl.

OK.  So ASCII art doesn't quite cut it.
- /italic/
- referencing [0] a URL without clutter

-Roberto

[0] http://example.com/examples_of_flexible_text_email.php
-- 
Roberto C. Sanchez
http://familiasanchez.net/~sanchezr

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