Re: [boost] Help please with Boost Discussion Policy

Subject: Re: [boost] Help please with Boost Discussion Policy
From: Eric Niebler (eniebler_at_[hidden])
Date: 2014-01-22 17:52:53

On 1/22/2014 2:13 PM, Fletcher, John P wrote:
> It has been pointed out to me that I need to change my habits from top posting to be conformant to the Boost Discussion Policy http://www.boost.org/community/policy.html
> 
> I accept this fully and I am seeking some guidance how to achieve this.  At my place of work our email client is Microsoft Outlook 2010 and the normal practice is top posting.
> 
> When I am at home I can access the same system via a web email client which does the same thing.
> 
> The Boost policy document reffers to Quote-Fix  (http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/oe-quotefix/ ) which was last updated in 2006 and does not work with current versions of Outlook.
> 
> There is also this:
>  http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/macros4outlook/index.php?title=QuoteFix_Macro
> 
> I am doing most of my Boost work from home and want to be able to communicate freely.
> 
> Ideally what I want to do is to switch between the styles so that only my Boost and related work is in quoted style.
> 
> Any help will be much appreciated.

I have no recent experience with Outlook. I personally use Mozilla
Thunderbird. You could simply install a second email client.

Eric