From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Ren=E9_Scharfe?= Subject: Re: Effective Posting Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:29:24 +0100 Message-ID: <49BEC4B4.6070305@lsrfire.ath.cx> References: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A2AEFA4@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> <7veiwxwa9z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A2AEFD7@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> <7v3addw7mv.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A2AF031@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Cc: Junio C Hamano , git@vger.kernel.org To: John Dlugosz X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Mar 16 22:31:08 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LjKOp-0001jv-40 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:31:07 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761516AbZCPV3c convert rfc822-to-quoted-printable (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:29:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752135AbZCPV3c (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:29:32 -0400 Received: from india601.server4you.de ([85.25.151.105]:42726 "EHLO india601.server4you.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755133AbZCPV3b (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:29:31 -0400 Received: from [10.0.1.101] (p57B7E56F.dip.t-dialin.net [87.183.229.111]) by india601.server4you.de (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D49CF2F8050; Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:29:28 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.19 (X11/20090105) In-Reply-To: <450196A1AAAE4B42A00A8B27A59278E70A2AF031@EXCHANGE.trad.tradestation.com> Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: John Dlugosz schrieb: > If you can tell me how to make Outlook insert >'s in front of a block > of text, I'm all ears. I can't find any kind of "quote content" or=20 > "paste as quotation" on the menus, or any option to do anything with=20 > the original message other than to put it at the end with ---original > message--- in front of it. This was the best I could figure out=20 > that was useful, and gets replies threaded (mostly) properly. Tools -> Options -> Preferences -> E-mail Options, set "When replying t= o a message" to "Prefix each line of the original message". > While you're at it, how do you tell Outlook to always start a message > in "plain text" (not HTML) based on the target address, like=20 > Thunderbird does? Tools -> Options -> Mail Format, set "Compose in this message format" t= o "Plain Text". > Alternatively, tell me how to reply using the Gmane web viewer, or=20 > point me to another web-based viewer that shows current content. No idea. But why not use a real mail user agent? > Or, the mailing list server could translate Outlook's visible=20 > interspersed quotes (the original message is blue, new typing is=20 > black) with a uniform quote style that is specified in each=20 > subscriber's preference settings. Avoiding garbage is better than converting it to something useful. If someone wrote an Outlook mail sanitizer, I'd probably use it at work, too, though. > Could be worse. Ever use Lotus Notes? Yes, long ago, and thankfully I don't remember much about it. There's always a way to do worse -- that's small comfort. Ren=E9