On Sat, 4 Oct 2008 04:12:23 am Travis wrote: > Linux defaults to HTML and top posting. Shame shame on Linux.
Linux is an operating system, not a mail client. If you're going to pretend to be all superior and wise, shame on you for not knowing the difference. And speaking of failing to follow accepted standards for email, if you're going to chastise others for breaking accepted standards, you better damn well make sure you're not breaking them yourself. (1) Your replies are broken as you claim that your text is part of the "original message". Your reply follows the following format: Header line: "----- Original Message ----- " Selected headers from the original message Quoted text of the original message Your reply embedded at the bottom of the original message. The original message was not quoted, why do you claim it was? Your response was not part of the original message, why do you claim it is? (2) Bottom posting can be just as obnoxious as top posting, especially when you quote 38 lines of the original only to add a single line at the very end. That's known as a Metoobe, or "AOL! AOL!" from the habit of AOLers who reply to posts in their entirety only to add a single line (often "Me too!") at the end. The polite thing to do is to trim the text you are replying to to remove extraneous text, leaving enough to establish context, and interleave your response between the lines you are replying to as if it were a conversation. Having said all that, there's something to be said for the old rule that says that in polite society, the only unforgivable faux pas is to comment on somebody else's faux pas. A gentleman should be able to make himself at home in *any* society, even Verizon users or Usenet. (The rule didn't apply to ladies, who were imagined to be delicate little flowers, but the Victorians were funny like that.) So while I encourage you to do the right thing, it's not like the world will come to an end if you don't. -- Steven _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
