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Programmers tend to be proficient in email and mailing list technique. Is there an online wiki-style guide, for normal humans, on how to use email effectively? It would cover the following topics:

  • The virtues of text-only messages
  • How to do proper quoting and trimming of other people's messages
  • Mailing lists - how to subscribe/unsubscribe, the mechanics of message forwarding and archiving
  • How to configure individual mail clients to do text replies, reply below, etc

Ideally I would politely point people to this guide instead of explaining things every time.

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Alex, unfortunately questions on Super User are supposed to relate to computer hardware and software. Usage of mailing lists doesn't really fit here, as you don't necessarily need software for that either and it's more a question of etiquette. I was thinking about a better place to ask, but couldn't yet come up with any, sorry. – slhck Aug 23 '11 at 8:36
you seem to have a very clear idea of what you need... so why not do it? – Journeyman Geek Aug 23 '11 at 9:12
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closed as off topic by slhck, Journeyman Geek, ChrisF, Mokubai, Linker3000 Aug 23 '11 at 9:29

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