On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 at 10:22:00AM +0000, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> Also corporates seem less bothered about the crap below your reply. You can
> reply and leave a hundred further mails below yours and nobody seems to
> care. Unlike a mailing list where disk space and bandwidth are issues, where
> we generally ask people to trim.
I hadn't thought of that, but it's true. It's official company policy
to trim messages and not to send them to "reply-all" and not send emails
if talking to them is more appropiate. However no body does it, and we are
drowing under huge top-posted, reply-to-all emails at work...
> > * It's lazy/easy because it's the default behaviour of Lookout.
> >
> It's not lazy, it's just the default so people use it. Many people in
> business have no clue what "top posting" or "bottom posting" means. They're
> not being lazy by not trimming, they're just doing what is the accepted norm
> as you say.
Fair point.
> > However I can't really see the point as it stands. The people who like
> > to top-post what is the benefit to you, why do you do it?
> >
>
> I want people to read my mails, so I conform.
I can see your point, but more than once someone has asked me to do do something,
and because the original request came half way doen a top-posted ping-pong, that
at some point got CCed to me I missed the request.
--
Adam Trickett
Overton, HANTS, UK
In the field of observation, chance favours only the
prepared minds.
-- Louis Pasteur
