[TriLUG] Email: HTML, replies, signatures, and signing

[Warren Myers]

Bottom-replies always make my head hurt - especially when not using a tool
like Gmail that has the decency to hide [most] of the previous crap :)
If it's at the top, you can get the thread of communication quite quickly -
the way blogs work: the newest item is at the top.

WMM

On Sat, Nov 22, 2008 at 7:18 PM, Chess Griffin <chess at chessgriffin.com>wrote:

> On Sat, 22 Nov 2008 14:02:32 -0500
> James Tuttle <jjtuttle at trilug.org> wrote:
>
> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
> > Hash: SHA1
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've been playing around with email configuration and wondered if
> > others would mind sharing opinions.
> >
> > HTML?  I've never written HTML email till now mostly as a result of
> > using Pine in college.  It seems like pretty much everyone can accept
> > it and I find that when I reply and leave quoted text in my reply it's
> > pretty damned ugly.
>
> I cannot stand HTML email.  It drives me crazy.  I only use plain text.
>
> >
> > Replies?  Reply above the quote or below?  I've tried not to top-post,
> > but it's annoying to others to reply below the quote, I suspect.
> >
>
> Below, unless replying point by point as I am now.  :-)  I think
> non-techie people tend to top-post, but it's another pet peeve of
> mine.  I always reply below even to the non-techies.
>
> >
> > Signatures? Email signature below the quote when replying or above?  I
> > have been replying above the quote and placing the signature below,
> > but that seems difficult for some to figure out.
>
> Since I reply below the quote, I put the signature below.
>
> >
> > Signing?  I've been signing in-line and probably annoying people with
> > the SHA-1 hash crap at the start of my email.  Almost no one knows
> > what it means.  Yesterday I started signing with PGP/Mime, which is
> > perhaps a little less obnoxious.  Any thoughts on signing and in-line
> > versus PGP/Mime?
> >
>
> I have signed with PGP/Mime for years and it seems to work out ok.
>
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