[PLUG] E-mail etiquette: why MS users don't have it

Jeme A Brelin jeme at brelin.net
Sun Feb 22 18:40:03 UTC 2004


On Sun, 22 Feb 2004, Rich Shepard wrote:
>   Perhaps those of you who administer mixed-OS environments can answer this
> question: Why do winduhs users top-post their responses to messages and
> leave the entire message to which they are replying on the bottom?
>
>   I send my responses back with each comment following the appropriate chunk
> of quoted text. But, they never seem to get a clue. Is this because that's
> the only way -- or the default -- for Lookout! and Lookout Faster and no one
> tries to do anything different?

Oh, and also they don't provide a nice, single-line quote reference as
above.  You get a sort of summation of headers rather than a quote
reference.  That's dumb, too.  Again, it looks more like a forward than a
reply.

J.
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