[arch-general] Quoting of E-mails

[Aaron Griffin]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 4:17 PM, ludovic coues <couesl at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2010/1/12 Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com>
>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 12:28 PM, Guus Snijders <gsnijders at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > On 12-01-10 06:27, Loui Chang wrote:
>> >
>> > [top posting & trimming ]
>> >
>> >> I think part of the problem is that some email clients like gmail
>> >> webmail help persist the bad behaviour. They default with top posting
>> >> replies and sending HTML emails. I have requested that they change the
>> >> defaults, but haven't gotten any response. It isn't a big surprise
>> >> though.
>> >
>> > Actually, it /is/ configurable in gmail.
>>
>> You can change the default to text, but bottom posting requires a
>> greasemonkey script :S
>>
>
>
> I'm intersted in how to set the default to text. I've search a bit, and
> found nothing :s

Ah well, it's not exactly true. If you switch to text, the default
will be text UNLESS you respond to an HTML email...