I am using Danny's answer to reply you. In this case, do you think top posting is better? Regards, Xiaofan On 11/26/05, Olin Lathrop wrote: > Chen Xiao Fan wrote: > > Outlook and outlook express are decent email clients. They are > > also the de-facto standard in the corporate world. So people > > will still top-post when they use Outlook or Outlook Express. > > Nonsense. I use Outlook Express and it's very easy to in-line post and > trim. This must be an issue of settings. I'd be happy to tell you all my > settings if you're willing to in-line post if it becomes easy for you. > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Danny Sauer Date: Nov 25, 2005 11:53 PM Subject: Re: [EE] Top-posting, is it really that bad? To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." Gerhard wrote regarding 'Re: [EE] Top-posting, is it really that bad?' on Fri, Nov 25 at 07:24: > You can configure Outlook to prefix every line of a message you are > replying to with e.g. ">". (Tools | Options | Preferences | E-mail Options > ... | On replies and forwards.) This makes context posting quite possible, > even with Outlook. We need to take into account that while nowadays most It's worth noting for those who spell check that this breaks spell checking (in Outlook). The checker somehow is unable to figure out what you typed v/s what you replied to, and checks even the quoted text. I find that exceedingly irritating, as many people I reply to don't spell well. :) It's also irritating because almost every other mail program doesn't have a problem with that... --Danny I am using Danny's answer to reply you. In this case, do you think bottom posting is better? Regards, Xiaofan -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist