In John Smith <
[email protected]> had this to say:
My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
I have been using news on and off for decades...
However, there are always a group complaining about outlook express
and top posting...
Back around 1980 I remember using telnet on some very early news
servers. It was important to comment on what you were commenting on
back then... but now with new newsreaders keeping it all organized by
subject, etc, what are all these gripes about?
And, how should outlook express be set up with regards to text--even
when I have it set to post and email in plain text they complain about
outlook!!!
Regards,
John
I use the above line (I use OEQuoteFix for this) at the top to tell people
where the post's reply is going to be. No matter what you do there will be
people who complain about it. I bottom post because I also snip. I seldom
include more than what I'm specifically responding to. I too have been using
news servers for a long time though not until the mid to late 1980s.
There's no such critter as the perfect posting format. Either justify the
way you send your posts or ignore them but once you've made the effort to
justify your reasons it's best to ignore them and their trollish behavior.
If they complain about the specific client you're using then that too can
either be justified or ignored. You can blame it on AOL for letting everyone
know about the newsgroups when they added them as a feature oh so many years
ago.
This link was recently posted in DTS:
http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/06/13/somehow_usenet_lumbers_on/
You should always post and read in plain text. Open OE, tools, options,
sending tab, and you can adjust it down near the bottom. If you're using an
up-to-date OE you can also set the client to read in plain text as well.
That would be in the same area but under the read tab. The reasons for
reading in plain text are really simple, code can't be carried in plain
text. No code means no exploits. It's safer. Not to mention that no code
means no images loading automatically saving CPU cycles and potentially
loading them from a web server which will indicate that your email is valid
and being read so spammers could/would keep sending you email.
Galen
--
"And that recommendation, with the exaggerated estimate of my ability
with which he prefaced it, was, if you will believe me, Watson, the
very first thing which ever made me feel that a profession might be
made out of what had up to that time been the merest hobby."
Sherlock Holmes
