From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Different subject now, you have been warned!   [was: Re: [WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?]
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 12:30:03 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 10:22 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Different subject now, you have been warned! [was: Re:
[WSFA] Re: Has anyone read any good books lately?]

> At 12:23 AM 3/28/05 -0500, Ted White wrote:
> >From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
>
> >> Ok, now I have a reason to hate Gmail, rather than as in the past
where I
> >> only had reasons not to use it myself.  Now it's in the same class as
> >> "Lookout!" and "Lookout! Distress".
> >
> >I'm slow.  It took me to your last line to realize that you were
> >complaining about Outlook and Outlook Express.
>
> Surprise ending, huh?  ;-)
>
> >I have no idea why, in this context.
>
> Because it encourages top posting.  Besides starting with the cursor
above
> the text, it also includes: ">----- Original Message -----" above the
> quoted text, and doesn't, by default, do the standard ">" indenting of
the
> quoted text.  The net effect is to encourage people to top post...and
most do.

Funny; mine does do "the standard '>' indenting of the quoted text," as my
posts make obvious.

--Ted White