RE: [Nolug] What's the polite way to politely get Unix email user s to...

On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 15:16, Kevin Bucknum wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ron Johnson [mailto:ron.l.johnson@cox.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 26, 2003 2:59 PM
> > To: NOLUG ML
> > Subject: [Nolug] What's the polite way to politely get Unix
> > email users
> > to...
> >
> >
> > Do "reply at bottom" instead of "reply at top" (which is The
> > Way Of The
> > Dark Side)?
> >
> > --
>
> Most Unix users seem to get this naturally. However some of use are stuck
> with windows software that makes you go out of the way to make it difficult
> to do the right thing. In our all windows shop everyone has converted their
> all clients to use html and have pretty sigs. When they complain that my
> switching there message back to plain text and fixing the quoting makes it
> ugly, I just point them to http://www.uwasa.fi/~ts/http/quote.html Thats
> about as polite of an explaination as I've seen on it out there.
>
> Sorry in advance if this crappy software or the exchange server between
> farks with decent mailreaders.

But there are those (even on this list!!!!) who use Unix mail clients
yet still do "reply at top". Maybe he is a relative newbie.

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