[lug] Re: E-mail etiquette

David L. Anselmi anselmi at anselmi.us
Mon Nov 24 22:09:33 MST 2008


David Morris wrote:
> Reminds me of an old argument on why bottom-posting should be used:

Exactly.

> By default, MS Outlook (historically, and probably currently, the most
> commonly used email client) forces top-posting by default.

My experience is that it is impossible to make it quote correctly.  So 
you have to do silly things like use a different color if you want to 
reply in-line (and I've seen this done when necessary, though 
top-posting is the norm).

Dave




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