Mail etiquette (was: What is this mean by this term)

[Joe Holden]

Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Friday January 19, 2007 at 10:21:24 (AM) Ceri Davies wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Fri, Jan 19, 2007 at 09:42:54AM +1030, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>
>>> I think the biggest problem with Microsoft MUAs is not where they
>>> position the cursor, but the difficulty they cause in editing the
>>> text.  My editor also positions the cursor at the very top when I
>>> reply to a message.  But it also makes it possible to tidy things up.
>> To be fair to Microsoft (or perhaps this makes it even worse), their Mac
>> development team clearly understand this, as Entourage (the Mac
>> equivalent of Outlook) doesn't do any of the tens of stupid things that
>> Outlook does.
> 
> Actually, the MS Live Beta version can be configured to place the cursor
> at the end when replying. 
> 
>>> "Top posting" is only one issue.  Others of great importance are
>>> trimming your posts, not breaking the lines into tiny fragments, and
>>> not writing one-line paragraphs.  Your .sig is a good example of
>>> things that people should remove from replies.
> 
> No one needs a 10+ line signature. Perhaps they are compromising for
> other shortcomings.
>> When they are correctly formatted (line-feed,hyphen,hyphen,space), good
>> MUAs can do this automatically.
> 
> I think the problem can be more readily attributed to the theory of
> "PEBKC".
> 
There are also patches for Outlook to implement proper quoting and replying.

Ta,
Joe