On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:21:07PM -0600, Johne Cook <bio_phy at hotmail.com> wrote: > >From: Matthew Hunter <matthew at infodancer.org> > >Many people now choose to use other styles, such as top posting. > >They view this as a matter of personal taste, but that is an > >illusion. In truth, they are almost universally guided towards > >top posting by their email client, in subtle, nefarious ways > >that they are not even aware of. Such seemingly minor influences > >as where the cursor is placed or how the editted message is > >handled all contribute to this. > It's true, and it' s obnoxious. We top-post because any other way is in > direct conflict with the e-mail app. I tried looking around in my Outlook > program at work (no, I didn't have a choice, there), and it appears to be > geared toward top-posting, too. I'm beginning to despair of using my > signature anywhere ever again. Supposedly there is a patch out that fixes the quoting in outlook express. I don't know about raw outlook. And since I don't use that patch, I don't know where to find it. But if you go to rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan and ask about it, someone will doubtlessly direct you appropriately. Perhaps even googling there will give you sufficient answer. -- Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org) Public Key: http://matthew.infodancer.org/public_key.txt Homepage: http://matthew.infodancer.org/index.jsp Politics: http://www.triggerfinger.org/index.jsp