Re: Doesn't XP come with a phone program?

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In news:O%231q2zncJHA.3692@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Terry R. typed on Fri, 09 Jan 2009 09:09:01 -0800:
The date and time was Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:07:42 PM, and on a
whim, BillW50 pounded out on the keyboard:

In news:eepkwybcJHA.4412@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
Terry R. typed ON Thu, 08 Jan 2009 10:12:35 -0800:
The date and time was Wednesday, January 07, 2009 9:13:00 PM, and
on a whim, sgopus pounded out on the keyboard:

in case you missed it, I didn't express any feelings, I stated an
opinion, different from yours. top posting works just fine for me
and I accept wherever others choose to post, without comment, top
or bottom, not you! you tend to personalize too much! "This is an
opinion, not a feeling" your free to disagree!
I don't think Bill was stating the main issue was top posting, but
the way MS clients insert a delimiter incorrectly when someone
posts their reply above the quote and then a sig below the reply.

When a proper newsreader sees a delimiter as it was designed,
everything below the delimiter is removed, which blows away all the
prior content. Delimiters are ONLY to be used when bottom posting.
That was the way it was designed. When I top post (in email), my
mail client (Thunderbird), doesn't insert a delimiter above the sig.
It only inserts the delimiter when the sig is at the bottom, which
is the correct way it should be done.

If users of MS clients used Quotefix (which resolves the bug) as
Bill mentioned, the content below a sig would remain intact.

Only one MVP I know of took the issue into consideration and changed
their posting style. As most have said here, they don't care
whether the incorrect insertion of the delimiter causes problems or
not. THAT is selfish, especially when they take it personally
rather than realizing the issue is with the mail client they use,
and taking the proper steps to correct it.

Thanks Terry. You said it so very well. ;)


You're welcome Bill. Unfortunately it falls on blind eyes (deaf
ears)...

Yup, too bad! :(

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Bill
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