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Well, I'll probably get ostracized for this, but I actually prefer top posting (I like RPN calculators also, I'm just warped that way).  I `really` dislike paging through 10 screens of an email to discover the single comment buried somewhere near the end.  With top posting the new content is always right there at the top, which is all I need for threads I'm familiar with and, if I lack context, I can just go to the bottom and scan up, finding the info that I need.

Yes, top posting requires a little discipline, you need to copy/paste a little context up to the top if it's not obvious what portion of the email you're replying to, but that's a small price to pay.

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Don Dugger
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-----Original Message-----
From: Stefano Maffulli [mailto:stefano at openstack.org] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 15, 2014 1:03 PM
To: openstack-dev at lists.openstack.org
Subject: [openstack-dev] Resources to fix MS Outlook (was Re: [Nova] [Gantt] Scheduler split status (updated))

On 07/15/2014 09:02 AM, Dugger, Donald D wrote:
> Unfortunately, much as I agree with your sentiment (Death to MS
> Outlook) my IT overlords have pretty much forced me into using it.  

It's been a while since I had to deal with really awful software but since the is a common problem, shall we collect some tips, tricks, resources to help the fellows in need?

I remember back in the day, there were some fairly easy fixes to overcome Outlooks lack of respect for RFCs. Something like:

http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/
http://www.lemis.com/grog/email/fixing-outlook.php

Do these still work? What else can we do to help make mailing lists messages more easy to read?

Gmail is also pretty badly giving up on respecting RFCs, giving way too many incentives for people to top-posting and not quote properly.

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