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[Doug]

On 12/27/2010 03:06 PM, Raeven Cogan wrote:
>
>
> On Mon, Dec 27, 2010 at 2:53 PM, Boggess Rod <rboggess at tenovacore.com 
> <mailto:rboggess at tenovacore.com>> wrote:
>
>     > What is top posting and how can avoid doing it? I am sorry for
>     asking
>     such
>     >a simple question but I have never been part of a mailing list until
>     now;
>     >thus, I have no idea what I am doing. [?]
>     >------------------------------
>
>     /snip/
>
>     What email client are you using? Outlook perhaps? It appears
>     you're also
>     sending replies as HTML which is undesirable. If you don't have a
>     compelling reason for using HTML, it would be considerate if you'd
>     change your replies to use plain text. If you can't, your
>     participation
>     is more important than the formalities. Welcome to Ubuntu!
>
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> I have no reason to use html it's simply that I don't know how to 
> change to plain text.
>
A great many Linux (and Windows) users use and like Mozilla Thunderbird.
It works virtually identically on both types of systems, and it's easy to
let the program set things up for you:

Go to Write>Account Settings>Composition and Addressing>
Uncheck "Compose in HTML format"
Check "Automatically quote received message"
Check "Start reply below quote"

One thing it cannot do, but you should: snip off parts of the quote 
which are
not germane to the reply, or have been seen and answered before, and
replace that (those) part(s) with "/snip/" as I have done to the received
message above.

The above advice is good for all Linux mailing lists that I am aware of, and
won't hurt in Windows, either.

(I don't know if these features are available in Debian's crummy replacement
for TBird, which some say is identical, and others say "no way.")

--doug

-- 
Blessed are the peacemakers...for they shall be shot at from both sides. --A. M. Greeley

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