Am 07.06.2013 08:32, schrieb A.L.E.C:
On 06/06/2013 08:45 PM, Michael Heydekamp wrote:
uh, I must admit that this standard (?) with three sig dashes (without WSP) for top-posted replies is totally new to me, thanks for the input. Is this documented somewhere (RFCs)...? And what's the sense of and reason for it?
No standard, but everybody knows top-posting is evil.
Uh! I honestly beg to differ, but I'd wish you were right. Of course top-posting is evil, but I seriously doubt that everybody knows it. Outlook has unfortunately managed to make top posting a worldwide "standard" through the last decades, especially in business environments.
So these folks are using this way of quoting also in private e-mail. Nowadays most people have no clue anymore of the good old inline quoting. Not everybody has started his "mail career" in the mailbox networks of the eighties.
I don't want to receive messages from top-posters with standard separator. We (Roundcube) will not help to produce "broken" messages.
Well, (fortunately) Roundcube does in fact help, as it doesn't touch a standard separator if being included in the sig itself already (even when top-posting). ;-) And please don't change that.
Plus, that a top posting with standard separator is not necessarily broken. It may even be deliberate.
My default setting is indeed top-posting, because most people I'm in touch with, are unfortunately not familiar with inline quoting. The problem is,
If they are not familiar with "standard" quoting, why do you care about separator in mail sent to them?
What you call "standard quoting", is nowadays and in real life not a standard anymore. :-( And again, I agree that it's a pity, but a fact.
that, depending on the person I'm replying to, I do not always use top-posting. In those cases I'm moving the the sig to the bottom of the mail.
Aha. That I can understand, but this is another story (feature request).
Right. I already mentioned this already here and there in this list, that it would be most convenient to have an addressbook-specific option how to reply to this particular user.
But even then the way of quoting may sometimes change from message to message during a discussion with the same user...
Cheers,
Michael Heydekamp Co-Admin freexp.de Düsseldorf/Germany