16 maj
Writing good email.
I, as many others, use email extensively for communication. I rarely use the phone anymore and have substituted it with things as email and irc. I also enjoy being a member of several mailing lists that provide me with the latest news, support and general tips in areas that I find interesting.
The preferred way to format an email is very personal. Some friends of mine like, for instance, to reply to an email _above_ the original mail. So when you read a reply from them, and your memory is short like mine ;), you would have to first scroll down to read the original message and back up again to read the reply. This can make for some strangely composed messages where you have to jump up and down in the message and, if it’s really bad, count ‘>’-separators to try and figure out which text was posted when.
If you are a mailing list member, or thinking of becoming one, and feel unsure of ‘best practices’ I have two links you should follow. First there is A beginner’s guide to effective email which will give you good tips you should try and follow. The second links is How to write effective mailing list email which is more of a complement to the first one with perhaps more mailing list oriented tips.