[Coco] mailto protocol is easy, flexible and very useful

[Bob Devries]

I heartily agree with Tim. I too, read my emails during the day as they come 
in. It's a real pain for me to search through the text of the message to 
find where someone has added their bit, and frequently miss that in the 
sheer volume of the message.

Everyone's requirements are different, but we should not berate people who 
do it differently from ourselves.

Everyone's software is different too; some software doesn't appear to 
properly mark the text that's quoted. I know that OE V6 is a bit haphazard 
in this area.

If I want to specifically quote text, I usually use cut & paste to do so, 
and mark the text myself with QUOTE/UNQUOTE.

Regards, Bob Devries
Dalby, QLD, Australia

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tim Fadden" <t.fadden at cox.net>
To: "CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts" <coco at maltedmedia.com>
Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 8:16 AM
Subject: Re: [Coco] mailto protocol is easy, flexible and very useful


> Personally I prefer top posting.   Seeing as I read my mail continually 
> throughout the day and follow the conversations; it is much quicker to 
> follow when people use top posting.
>
> Tim  :-)
>
>
> On 9/2/2011 3:25 PM, Frank Pittel wrote:
>> I think we need a good flame war about top posting. I was reading my
>> mail using mutt as my MUA in an xterm. I was reading my mail from my
>> windows machine at work. I used putty to ssh into my home computer and
>> ran mutt from my home computer.
>>
>> I think some here need to think out of the box and realize that not 
>> everyone
>> following this list is reading their email using a gui based MUA running 
>> in a
>> window on that local machine. To my knowledge there is no "internet 
>> standard"
>> that requires that an MUA run in a gui on the machine local to the user 
>> or be
>> able to render html. I may be wrong though.
>>
>> The Other Frank
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 02, 2011 at 10:05:16PM +0100, Phill Harvey-Smith wrote:
>>> On 02/09/2011 22:02, Frank Pittel wrote:
>>>> Hmmm, I clicked on all of those links and nothing happened.
>>> Worked for me here in windows / thunderbird.
>>>
>>> And while we're at it how about people trim their posts to the
>>> relevant stuff.......
>>>
>>> Cheers.
>>>
>>> Phill.
>>>
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