Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette
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On 05/16/07 00:36, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote:
>> On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.ca> wrote:
>>> Rick Thomas wrote in Article
>>> <[🔎] D95BB531-A19B-46FE-BC9B-FC5418EBDC2C@pobox.com> posted to
>>> gmane.linux.debian.user:
>>>
>>>> http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html
>>> Almost as bad is when people top post their replies. Did these people
>>> utterly fail in grade school, or are they deliberately ignoring the flow of
>>> language?
>
> [snipped stuff which should have been snipped by previous poster]
>
>> Their MS outlook defaults to top posting...therefore it must be ok.
>> Microsoft said so =_)
>
> It could be argued that it defaults to putting the cursor at the top so
> to enable easy snipping of unnecessary text. If it defaulted to bottom
> posting then even less snipping would occur. :-(
>
> IMHO "top posting" is preferable to "bottom posting without snipping".
> Also it is preferable to snip the sig and any disclaimers etc.
Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ".
(Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.)
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA USA
Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day.
Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good!
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