Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

Ron Johnson wrote:
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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:
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> > > > > 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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Dang it. Another improper tool :-(

Hugo