Problem!

[Peter Garrett]

On Fri, 03 Feb 2006 17:28:42 +1100
Sasha Tsykin <psychosushi at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

>  have set my mail browser to top quote automatically, because that is 
> what most windows users use and they don't often go to the bottom of 
> messages looking for replies. They just ignore the message and assume it 
> only has content which they wrote. 

My solution to this is to insert a "top message" for non-list or non-geek
mail ;-) Thus:

Hi, $non-geek-person,

Please see my commnets interspersed in your text below.

[ suitably snipped and edited content ]

[ sign off at the bottom ]

Seems to work OK

Peter

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'If I ever saw an animated penguin with a speech bubble saying, 
"It looks like you're trying to edit fstab", 
I'd switch to BSD faster than a speeding Gentoo user.'
-- Paul Hudson