[kwlug disc.] kwlug mailing list etiquette

[Rashkae]

Joe wrote:

>>
>> #1 is solved 99% of the time by simply reconfiguring their MUA when 
>> they're not looking.  They don't exert any extra effort to bottom post 
>> and they almost never notice.
>>

I've tried this.  (Actually, I'm too lazy to really do any such, it just 
happens to be the Thunderbird default).  Reality check comes pretty 
fast.  If people outside of technical mailing lists start receiving 
bottom posted replies, *they* complain, and then the senders complain to 
  *me* that their mail program is always defaulting to bottom and they 
have to scroll back up to type replies!  I assure you, telling the suits 
that bottom posted replies is the proper way to format e-mails because 
it makes the conversation flow logically gets you absofarkinglutely nowhere.