Posts Tagged ‘quoting’

A treasure trove of information on email

Friday, March 31st, 2006

dans_email_siteFollowing some links on del.icio.us today, I stumbled across Dan’s Mail Format Site , a site full of backgrounding on email and how it works.

It covers everything from emoticons and RFC 2822 to MIME encoding, lots of stuff on headers and the politics of quoting, including one of my favourite topics, the great top vs bottom posting debate.

It may not be as up-to-date as it could be, but it is still a great resource and a feast of browsing for people who want to learn a bit more about how email works.email, tips, history, emoticons, quoting

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Why Mail.app quotes the way it does

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

If you didn’t read the comments on drunkenbatman’s “Talking Mail.app” interview , you might have missed a very interesting link posted by Chris Mear which explains why Mail.app quotes text in the way it does.

The format=flowed FAQ explains why text that once upon a time looked like the example on the left, now looks like the example on the right:

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It also argues that this is a very good thing.format=flowed, quoting, mail.app, apple mail, text, email

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