PGP and HMG - Appeal for Sanity

[Owen Lewis]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> [mailto:ukcrypto-admin@chiark.greenend.org.uk]On Behalf Of Julian T. J.
> Midgley
> Sent: 08 May 2001 11:25
> To: ukcrypto@chiark.greenend.org.uk
> Subject: RE: PGP and HMG - Appeal for Sanity
>
>
>
> Owen,
>
> Please could be so kind as to conform to the usual standards for
> quoting other people's messages?  Your current practice of interleaving
> your comments with other peoples without any attempt at quoting their
> material makes your articles impossible to read, and just will not do.

Guilty only in part m'lud. You post(on a basis only of nil knowledge and
dyspepsia) an attribution to negligence what is a product of some
incompatibility of software, systems and a curious and stubborn mind. May
your judgement in other things prove more reasonable :-)

Interleaved msgs as they leave here have been coherent and as readable as
any thoughts of mine are likely to be. As relayed out to the list (including
back here), the formatting has been stripped to create an
incomprehensibility of content.

The struggle has been between my wish to compose mail in Word, which suits
my working practices, MS incapability after many years of product
development to produce a WP that creates text files fully compatible with
common internet practice and one or more nodes in the internet that are
incapable of leaving a msg as received and not mangling it into some
creation of their own.

After considerable experimentation (only correspondence to this list has
been causing grief), I have shown the white flag and now compose in Outlook.
Even this is not perfect however, though it insists on spell checking
original text as well as response, it does nothing for quality or tone of
content.

My thanks here to the several list members who have offered suggestions
either here or privately.

>
> If you can't work out how to make your email client add quote characters
> (e.g. '> ') to the front of other people's lines, then at the very least
you
> could top post (normally a practice I abhor, but compared to your current
> posting habits, infinitely more readable).
>
> Many thanks,

De nada,

Owen