talk minus action = zero

Umm... yeah so to remember a five day old conversation posted to an e-mail list, I now have to find the beginning of the conversation somewhere in the middle, read down and then scroll up to the top to read the other person's reply.
I though again about how top-posting made this hard for me to read, and did a little deeper reading in the RFC in question. I readied my reply to include Third Co-worker but didn't send it, remembering my itchy send finger and the desire to not be leading a one man crusade.
Feedback anyone?
( This might make sense if you read the whole thing from bottom to top... )

I was tired of not having mailto: links work correctly on my Ubuntu machine, so I did a bit of google-ing and found a very useful Perl one-liner here.

perl -MURI::Escape -e '$to= shift; if ($to =~ /^([^\?]+)\?(.*)$/){$to=$1;$args="&".$2;$args=~s/\&subject=/&su=/};$to =~ s/^mailto://i; exec("firefox","https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&cmid=22&to=".URI::Escape::uri_escape($to).$args);' '%s'


Ubuntu (and possibly other Gnome) users, stick this in the Mail Reader custom command field of System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications -> Internet.
Thanks to dcrooke at gmail dot com. It works like a charm.

I ran into a few websites about netiquette today, and thought I'd share. The +1 may be useful for determining if a website is up or down...

netiquette:
five.sentenc.es
thanksno.com
bccplease.com
and +1:
downforeveryoneorjustme.com

At work, we got a support ticket email with the following footer (emphasis added).

NOTICE - This communication may contain confidential and privileged information that is for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any viewing, copying or distribution of, or reliance on this message by unintended recipients is strictly prohibited. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer.

Just to be clear, I don't know about the legal aspects of this. What I do know is that deleting an email is not a step I would take to notify anyone of anything.