Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4749 mails)

[Tom Nielsen <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 11:00, Charles Philip Chan wrote:

> On 02 May 2003 10:34:58 -0700
> Tom Nielsen <Tom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Convention and the "business world" seem to be 2 different things. 
> 
> Not true, depending on your business contacts.

U.S. Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, IBM, Sun, Boeing, Lockheed Martin,
Northrop Grumman, DOE, CIA, blah, blah, blah....pretty much all do what
I described. The funny part is that the folks I work with are IT people
or systems' project managers. It's actually pretty funny, I have massive
threads from going back and forth with folks and everytime I need to go
back to re-read a subject, I have to start way down at the bottom. I
even find myself becoming annoyed by it.

> 
> > For example, this group usually flames guys like me for what I'm doing
> > now...replying on top. 
> 
> And rightly so.
> 
> > In the "business world" folks do what ever is quicker....and this is
> > quicker and that's normally top replies.
> 
> Only due to the poor design of some email programs, such as "Micro$oft
> Outhouse".

True. In Evolution, as soon as I hit reply, the cursor appears on the
top of the previous message. I would like to find a way to automatically
have it appear below the message, but that would create a huge problem
with other people's emails.  It would look something like this...

reply4
reply2
original
   reply
      reply 3

This is just based on the emails I get on a daily basis.

> 
> Here is a link for you:
> 
> http://catb.org/esr/jargon/html/Email-Quotes.html


Thanks, I'll take a look!

> 
> Charles