From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Lmaqa-0005LI-8D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:16 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D1652E04FB; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (newton.gmurray.org.uk [81.2.114.237]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81983E04FB for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from newton.gmurray.org.uk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n2PLfDAK008418 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:13 GMT X-DKIM: Sendmail DKIM Filter v2.8.2 newton.gmurray.org.uk n2PLfDAK008418 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=gmurray.org.uk; s=in200703; t=1238017273; bh=tdGLmBIZFNqPWZ3fLMlanI/CBgPjfiXIIrOnGuALXII=; l=694; h=From:To:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=NovfLAp1TFWkCshHw+Niy61ECQrDO02uu1M7Ex8faet7zz5PFWoXDpSy+K6g0AJhU 4jHvtbCDOoURBL33FeMZ/KiZRJlOgbstZu+G3eLk8vFKXCqi/8CEdyxf1MhF9+x8Za M92hP5x+PaFw+Y4HtEzoB7OtsxKjolJNAge2GN74= Received: (from graham@localhost) by newton.gmurray.org.uk (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id n2PLfDxu008417; Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:13 GMT X-Authentication-Warning: newton.gmurray.org.uk: graham set sender to graham@gmurray.org.uk using -f From: Graham Murray To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Time to move on? References: <1237779541.4874.1.camel@blackwidow.nbk> <20090325121414.44e86639@krikkit.digimed.co.uk> <20090325145421.GA25254@cubotto.ath.cx> <200903251614.38784.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <58965d8a0903250816n7fb2b026hd7ed98eba43043fa@mail.gmail.com> X-Hashcash: 1:22:090325:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org::OKLoB8mY+wqnJcfG:000000000000000000000000000000000FdU4 Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2009 21:41:13 +0000 In-Reply-To: <58965d8a0903250816n7fb2b026hd7ed98eba43043fa@mail.gmail.com> (Paul Hartman's message of "Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:16:51 -0500") Message-ID: <878wmt5lhi.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.91 (gnu/linux) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: 78c2f020-00aa-487a-ad62-9993ce5feadd X-Archives-Hash: 0e595a328eeb4597b6ca80d3a9c88735 Paul Hartman writes: > There are many devices and webmail services that do quoting in the > "Microsoft Outlook" style -- putting a one-line divider between the > reply and the original message. No indentation or nesting of replies. > This makes it harder to reply to specific parts of e-mails, but does > show you the entire conversation unaltered (when everyone uses > Outlook, anyway) -- and some companies actually /require/ that style > of quoting, believe it or not. Maybe because it follows more closely (one of) the standard ways of filing correspondence - maintaining a paper file by adding each new document on top on top of the 'pile'.