Matt -- the answer is no.
* Matt peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Roy Schestowitz wrote:
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>> Microsoft patent brings Miss Manners into the digital age
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>> | Cell phones may be nearly ubiquitous in today's world, but the number of
>> | people who have adopted proper cell phone etiquette (or gadget etiquette in
>> | general) often seems to be far smaller. Microsoft has filed for a patent
>> | (patent application 2008/125,102) on technology it feels could address such
>> | situations via the use of what the company refers to as a "digital manners
>> | policy," or DMP for short.
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>> http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080611-microsoft-patent-brings-miss-manners-into-the-digital-age.html
>> http://tinyurl.com/449bcc
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> Have they yet managed to provide an Outlook Express option to set the
> default reply mode to "bottom post"?
(See top post)
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We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so
fast... It will be some finite number of years, and I don't know the number
-- before our doom comes.
-- Bill Gates, Forbes Greatest Business Stories of All Time (1997) by Daniel
Gross ISBN 0471196533
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