Broken quoting (was Re: XFCE4)

[Bob McConnell]

On Behalf Of Jonathan McKeown
On Monday 03 November 2008 08:38:07 joeb wrote:

>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
>> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Eitan Adler
>> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2008 12:14 PM
>> To: fbsd1 at a1poweruser.com
>> Cc: freebsd-questions at FreeBSD. ORG
>> Subject: Re: XFCE4
>>
>> Thank you for your random guess, but research of the ports system
seem to
>> indicate a whole suite of ports are needed to build a complete
working
>> environment.
>> Waiting for a real user to fill in the details of what combination of
ports
>> they used to build their XFCE4 desktop.
> 
> I don't know whether it's you or your email client, but your quoting
is 
> hideously broken. Please fix it.

It's his email client. Microsoft Lookout will no longer do standard
quoting and forces top posting of replies. I am also required to use it
by our IT department policies and have to manually reformat each message
I reply to. There used to be an option that could be set to get angle
bracket quoting, but that disappeared in the update from MS-Office 2000
to 2003.

The top line, "-----Original Message-----", is the clue that he is using
the Microsoft client. That is its standard separator for all replies.
Yes, it is a major pain. I really do prefer Thunderbird.

Bob McConnell