[SpamCop-List] Re: Possible slow reponse to spam submittals

[Mike Easter]

Mark wrote:
X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2670
Content-Type: text/html;

> Thanks for keeping us subscribers updated.

For newsgroup posting, it is best to configure your OE newsreader to
post in plaintext, not html.

That configuration is in OE/ Tools/ Options/ Send tab - News sending
format - check the radio button Plaintext, not html.


For newsgroup replying, it is best to trim and contextualize, not top
post.

http://members.fortunecity.com/nnqweb/nquote.html
news.newusers.questions -- Quoting Style in Newsgroup Postings - This
document is a description of the traditionally accepted "quoting style"
in Usenet newsgroup postings.


Since your newsreader can't be configured to handle the placement of a
signature automatically at the end of a trimmed and contextualized post,
you would need to disable OE's autosig, unless you were using OE
QuoteFix  http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/

The autosig function is one of the 'features' of OE which some people
feel 'forces' them to top post.  OE's design was 'thinking about'
corporate email TOFU [top post full quote under] - not proper trimmed
and contextualized news posting - and OE was never upgraded to be
configurable to both autosign and to also put the signature at the
bottom where it belongs after a trimmed and contextualized reply.


-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin