Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
At 13:42 1/2/2004, you [[[the OP]]] wrote:
My first attempt at posting messages
(http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/2004-January/msg00008.html) gave
me what I wanted - a solution. But I do not appear to have the reply part of
this figured out, as the responses are not placed where I want them to go.
This is a specific featuer to your mail client. LookOut and LookOut Express will always place the cursor for reply above the quoted text (top-posting), which is great for one-on-one conversations but murder for mailing lists and newsgroups (one-to-many communication). There is no way to change that, I think, just more work for you. Eudora is a lot more flexible and respects the standards.
Is there an ettiquette document? How should replies be formatted?
All I can suggest off the top of my head is:
http://www.charlescurley.com/netiquette.html
Doubtless there are others.
Try http://www.rhil.net/docs/rhil-guide.thml
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A few things at http://www.rhil.net/docs/rhil-guide.html might need revision or explanation. For instance, MIME is a no-no, but your own posting contains:
MIME-Version: 1.0 and Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
(which I don't disagree with in the least!) I'm just saying it doesn't fit what the guide says...
The guide also says to disable quoted-printable, and use 8-bit transfer, but you are using 7-bit transfer.
It also seems to me that anyone running either Fedora or even (gasp!) Windows would have ready access to a MIME-compliant (or at least MIME-tolerant, in the case of text) MUA. Would someone running Fedora actually be reading his email on a PDP-11 using the 1983 version of Berkeley mail? :-( Even the elm of that vintage was MIME-tolerant.
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