On 26 February 2010 08:41, David Richards <[email protected]>wrote:
> Greetings all, > > Has anyone else noticed people often don't answer more than one > question in an email? In fact, I'll generalise that and say people > often don't read an entire email. I had this today (already) but this > happens to me "all the time" (it's probably more like 25% of the time > but I think the exaggeration is justified). > > I put it down to the evil which is top-posting replies (something I'm guilty of occasionally, because answering inline confuses some corporate types. > This is particularly annoying when the main question isn't the first > one (such as today's incident). eg, "Please tell me A and B but I > really want to know about C" will usually just get me the answer to A. > > Whereas answering inline makes it easy to see what question you're addressing. > I don't want to have to "twitterize" my emails into single sentences > of a few small words. > > Use Buzz instead. > I wonder how many people on this list didn't get past the first sentence :) > > It also encourages snipping signature blocks - and I'll bring back my special sig about top-posting for this email. -- Meski Posting at the top because that's where the cursor happened to be is like crapping in your pants because that's where your asshole happened to be.
