Re: [Pan-users] Reading an HTML posting when using 'old' Pan

[David Kelly]

On Mar 23, 2012, at 11:46 AM, Rui Maciel wrote:

>> does not change the fact that the
>> *vast* majority of people (especially in offices) use Outlook, and
>> top-post and get by just fine.
> 
> Outlook does not enforce top-posting.  The cursor in the text edit box may be 
> placed by default at the start of the text, but that doesn't force anyone to 
> mindlessly start to write from there. Outlook users are still free and quite 
> able to format their message as they see fit.

Outlook does, and it doesn't. There are many versions of Outlook and this is 
one thing that differs between the free version bundled with Windows and the 
paid version that bundles with Office. No version allows trimming and inserted 
commentary the way real email clients permit (such as Apple's Mail.app, which 
gets threading badly wrong, IMHO the one thing Outlook gets right).

Sometimes in Outlook all one can do is cut the prior text out en mass. Fix it 
properly in an external editor. Then paste back in. The paid version can use 
Word as one's default editor where one can brute force edit a proper reply, but 
you fight it the whole way.

Outlook wants desperately to post in RTF/HTML, which only compounds the 
difficulty of effectively editing comments in the middle of reply quotes.

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David Kelly N4HHE, address@hidden
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