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

[Aaron Burt]

Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> 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?

Another reason:  "Message Preview" view, which lists messages with a
snippet of the beginning of the message below the subject.  I've had
Outbreak users complain to me that my reponses had their quoted text
in the Preview instead of my response, because it's at the top.

> I send my responses back with each comment following the appropriate
> chunk of quoted text. But, they never seem to get a clue.

Of course not.  They were too busy waiting for you to get a clue from
*their* example.  In my more paranoid moments, I believe there's a
secret BillyWare strategy to isolate its users from the competition by
constantly widening the communication gap between them and everyone
else.

First you cut 'em from the herd...
  Aaron