30 Dec
2007
30 Dec
'07
8:51 a.m.
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2007 19:34:09 -0800
From: rivie at ridgenet.net
To: cctalk at classiccmp.org
Subject: Re: Mail formatting
On Sat, 29 Dec 2007, der Mouse wrote:
OK, I have seen my own reply ... top-posting is no different.
The text at the bottom is also stripped of all control characters it seems.
I am running Windows XP SP2 and use "Windows Live Hotmail".
For this experiment, I concatenated the original quoted text at the top,
and created the separated lines by hitting "Enter". It is a bit of labour,
but if that makes the quoted text look good, it is better to do it myself,
than giving many people a hard time reading that.
It also helps in trimming a reply :-) I hope the quoted text now has CR's.
One repeat, to "add some information" in this message:
I have written the LA180 page (partly) and put it on my site.
Go to www.pdp-11.nl and navigate to:
peripherals -> comm -> printers -> LA180
Henk, PA8PDP (again keeping fingers crossed...)
Of course, there is a lot of broken SMTP code out
there. Looking at
headers makes me think Hank's mail was actually sent through Hotmail,
There's the bit I was looking for.
Hotmail recently became "Windows Live". In their most recent
"upgrade",
I noticed it doing this to messages I reply to. It even drops the line
breaks from my *signature*, despite being a Hotmail signature that's
been defined for ages.
Basically, Microsoft broke Hotmail recently. Users have to be careful.
--
roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net