List etiquette question

Paul Tomblin ptomblin at gmail.com
Thu Nov 18 02:36:56 UTC 2004


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004 20:15:56 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic
<amilivojevic at pbl.ca> wrote:

> (normal mail, mailing lists, news groups).  New Microsoft's product Outlook
> Express defaulted to placing cursor above quoted text, and default formatting of
> quoted text was such that it was hard for a user to write reply in normal and
> logical way (after the text (s)he was replaying to).  Consecvently, users were

As a friend of mine says: putting your new text at the beginning just
because that's where your cursor is, is like shitting your pants
because that's where your asshole is.

-- 
 "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we
are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and
servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Teddy Roosevelt




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